- Portly American character player, often seen as blustery and cantankerous, though basically benevolent, businessmen or patriarchs. He had initially trained for the ministry but changed his plans and became an actor instead.
- Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), One Hour with You (1932) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
- Father: John Masselline Barbier; Mother: Anna B. Lambert.
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