By Vlad Zakh · September 4, 2026
Cyril Ring was one of Hollywood’s most prolific uncredited character actors and appeared in over two hundred films across four decades. Keep ‘Em Flying stumbles two bumbling recruits through Army Air Corps training, Beyond Tomorrow returns three businessmen as ghosts to guide a couple, Charlie Chan on Broadway investigates a nightclub murder, and The Barber Shop collides a henpecked barber’s dreams with daily chaos. The Bad Sister and The Cocoanuts round out the list.
01 Cyril Ring is in this Abbott and Costello comedy where two bumbling recruits join the Army Air Corps and stumble through basic training toward accidental heroism.
Directed by Arthur Lubin · 1h 26m · Rated NR
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02 Cyril Ring is in this Christmas fantasy where three dead businessmen return as ghosts to steer a young couple toward true love.
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland · 1h 24m · Rated NR
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03 Cyril Ring appears in this mystery where the detective investigates a nightclub murder tied to a stolen list of names.
Directed by Eugene Forde · 1h 08m
04 Cyril Ring features in this W.C. Fields short about a henpecked barber whose dreams of adventure collide with the daily chaos of running his small-town shop.
Directed by Arthur Ripley · 0h 21m
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05 Cyril Ring features in this drama about a reckless young woman whose scandalous behaviour threatens to ruin her more responsible sister's engagement.
Directed by Hobart Henley · 1h 08m · Rated NR
06 Cyril Ring is in this Marx Brothers debut where the brothers cause chaos at a Florida hotel during a real estate boom and a jewel theft scheme.
Directed by Robert Florey & Joseph Santley · 1h 33m · Rated NR
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