Tom Costello

It was in the nature of classical Hollywood that an actor  could appear in 25 feature films, work with actors like James Cagney, Fred Astaire and Barbara Stanwyck, and under directors including Michael Curtiz, Frank Capra, Jacques Tourneur, Max Ophuls and Douglas Sirk, yet almost never play a character with a name, let alone a credit.

Such was the career of Tom Costello (1892-1954), who appeared briefly in In Gay Madrid.