Louis Jean Heydt was an American character actor in film, television and theatre, most frequently seen in hapless, ineffectual, or fall guy roles.
Heydt in Raiders of Old California (1957)
On set of Gone With the Wind (1939). L-R: Director Victor Fleming, Olivia de Havilland, and Louis Jean Heydt as one of the "hungry soldiers" at Tara.
The Great McGinty is a 1940 American political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $10 on condition he direct the film. Sturges received an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
UK theatrical poster