People named Joseph Skelley

Joseph M Skelley of Vernon Rockville, Tolland County, CT was born on February 21, 1918, and died at age 71 years old on April 12, 1989.

Joseph F Skelley of West Hartford, Hartford County, CT was born on May 27, 1927, and died at age 68 years old on November 1, 1995.

He was born James Harold Skelley in Alleghenyville, Pennsylvania to James and Martha Skelley. His family moved to Davenport, Iowa when he was four. He had four sisters and three brothers. Skelley was educated at Sacred Heart School in Davenport and St. Bede Academy in Peru, Illinois. He left home at the age of 15 and joined the circus. He acted in his first stage production, The Time, the Place and the Girl, at the LaSalle Theater in Chicago when he was 16. For a short period of time he was a backup first baseman for the Boston Braves and a prizefight manager. For his professional name he shortened his middle name Harold to Hal and dropped the final "e" in Skelley. Skelly became a veteran of medicine shows, musical comedy, burlesque, Lew Dockstader's minstrels and opera. He joined the A.M. Zinn musical comedy company in San Francisco where his eccentric dancing ability earned him the nickname "Tumbling Harold Skelly". Always enamored with the circus, he spent a year with Barnum & Bailey. Skelly toured China and Japan with a musical comedy troupe, the Raymond Teale Company. Skelly made his Broadway debut in Fiddler’s Three (1918) and went on to appear in ten other shows on Broadway. In 1927, he played a starring role alongside Barbara Stanwyck, in her first Broadway hit, the musical production Burlesque. Paramount Pictures invited the two to star in the 1929 talkie film version of the show, retitled The Dance of Life because studio executives judged the original title too risqué. Stanwyck turned down the offer, while Skelly accepted, reprising his role as "Skid Johnson". He would make a total of ten films, including the Woman Trap (1929), Behind the Make-Up (1930), and The Shadow Laughs (1933), and was also featured on two movie soundtracks. Skelly was killed in a train-auto accident in West Cornwall, Connecticut when the truck he was driving was struck by the New York to Pittsfield train of the New Haven Railroad at a crossing. News reports at the time said he was staying with friends and he was looking for a dog that had run away. His widow, Eunice, brought his body back to New York City for the funeral, which was held in the Actor's Chapel at Saint Malachy's Catholic Church in Manhattan. His mother and his brother Hugh accompanied the body back to Davenport for burial at St. Marguerite's Cemetery, now known as Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Joseph Skelley was born on May 5, 1830 in Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania United States, and died at age 44 years old on March 9, 1875. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph Skelley.

Joseph B Skelley of Elkton, Cecil County, MD was born on December 28, 1932, and died at age 71 years old on May 27, 2004. Joseph Skelley was buried at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery Section K Row J Site 9 2465 Chesapeake Road, in Bear, De.

Joseph Skelley died in October 1962. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph Skelley.

Joseph B Skelley of Alexandria, Fairfax County, VA was born on December 30, 1922, and died at age 66 years old on June 14, 1989.

Joseph Skelley was born on May 8, 1917, and died at age 62 years old in June 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph Skelley.

Joseph Skelley of Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma was born on October 30, 1894, and died at age 80 years old in June 1975.

Joseph Skelley was born on November 13, 1929, and died at age 49 years old in June 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph Skelley.

Joseph Skelley of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas was born on October 24, 1892, and died at age 87 years old in January 1980.

Joseph Skelley of Midlothian, Cook County, Illinois was born on August 16, 1895, and died at age 76 years old in January 1972.

Joseph L Skelley of Grafton, Taylor County, WV was born on May 27, 1939, and died at age 61 years old on October 5, 2000.

Joseph F Skelley of Brookhaven, Delaware County, PA was born on February 1, 1924, and died at age 72 years old on July 14, 1996.

Joseph F Skelley of Cumberland, Allegany County, MD was born on April 8, 1910, and died at age 87 years old on August 31, 1997.