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Sun 13
Canadian Pacific — Dick Wessel
Pioneering railroad builders, led by a rough-and-ready surveyor, attempt to complete a rail line through the Canadian Rockies.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Sun 13, 12:00 pm -
Sun 13
The Roaring Twenties — Dick Wessel
Soldiers who fought together in World War I try their hand at making a living as bootleggers during the Prohibition Era, with mixed and sometimes violent results.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Sun 13, 10:10 pm -
Wed 16
Canadian Pacific — Dick Wessel
Pioneering railroad builders, led by a rough-and-ready surveyor, attempt to complete a rail line through the Canadian Rockies.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Wed 16, 7:00 am -
Wed 16
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball — Dick Wessel
The comic-book crime fighter goes after a murderous, bald-domed thief who's in possession of a fortune in stolen diamonds.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Wed 16, 12:00 pm -
Thu 17
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball — Dick Wessel
The comic-book crime fighter goes after a murderous, bald-domed thief who's in possession of a fortune in stolen diamonds.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Thu 17, 1:00 am -
Thu 17
The Roaring Twenties — Dick Wessel
Soldiers who fought together in World War I try their hand at making a living as bootleggers during the Prohibition Era, with mixed and sometimes violent results.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Thu 17, 3:30 pm -
Sun 20
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball — Dick Wessel
The comic-book crime fighter goes after a murderous, bald-domed thief who's in possession of a fortune in stolen diamonds.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Sun 20, 6:00 am -
Sun 20
Petticoat Junction: Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer — Dick Wessel
The Hooterville firefighters can't put out a blaze on the Cannonball Express and have to ask for outside help.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Sun 20, 9:30 am
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Biography
About Dick Wessel
American actor Dick Wessel had a face like a Mack Truck bulldog and a screen personality to match. After several years on stage, Wessel began showing up in Hollywood extra roles around 1933; he is fleetingly visible in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933), Laurel and Hardy's Bonnie Scotland (1935), and the Columbia "screwball" comedy She Couldn't Take It (1935). The size of his roles increased in the '40s; perhaps his best feature-film showing was as the eponymous bald-domed master criminal in Dick Tracy vs.
Cueball (1946). He was a valuable member of Columbia Pictures' short subject stock company, playing a variety of bank robbers, wrestlers, jealous husbands and lazy brother-in-laws. Among his more memorable 2-reel appearances were as lovestruck boxer "Chopper" in The Three Stooges' Fright Night (1947), Andy Clyde's invention-happy brother-in-law in Eight Ball Andy (1948), and Hugh Herbert's overly sensitive strongman neighbor in Hot Heir (1947).
Wessel was shown to good (if unbilled) advantage as a handlebar-mustached railroad engineer in the superspectacular Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and had a regular role as Carney on the 1959 TV adventure series Riverboat. Dick Wessel's farewell screen appearance was as a harried delivery man in Disney's The Ugly Dachshund (1965).