Grover Perkins — Laughter in Hell Character Profile

About Grover Perkins

Barney's childhood nemesis. He is having an affair with Barney's wife, which causes Barney to lose control and murder them both.

Character Facts

Played by

Arthur Vinton

Appears in

Laughter in Hell (1933)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Grover Perkins — Family Related — Ed Perkins (Douglass Dumbrille)

  Siblings connected through the central murder and subsequent prison conflict.

• Grover Perkins — Conflict Childhood Nemesis — Barney Slaney (Pat O'Brien)

  Long-standing rivalry that escalates into fatal violence.

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More characters from Laughter in Hell

• Barney Slaney (Pat O'Brien)
• Barney as a Boy (Tommy Conlon)
• Marybelle Evans (Merna Kennedy)
• Lorraine (Gloria Stuart)
• Mike Slaney (Berton Churchill)
• Barton (Tom Brown)
• Mileaway (Lew Kelly)
• Ed Perkins (Douglass Dumbrille)
• Abraham Jackson (Clarence Muse)
• Brownfield (Noel Madison)
• Judge (Tom Ricketts)
• Ed Perkins, as a boy (Dick Winslow)