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He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Wings (1927) and It Happened One Night (1934).

Father of Todd Karns.

He has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Wings (1927), The Jazz Singer (1927), It Happened One Night (1934), Twentieth Century (1934), His Girl Friday (1940) and Woman of the Year (1942).