The Resume

(August 17, 1888-May 6, 1963)
Birth name is Edgar Montillion Woolley
Acted in 'Nothing Sacred (1937),' 'Arsene Lupin Returns (1938),' Three Comrades (1938),' 'The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942),' 'The Pied Piper (1943),' 'Since You Went Away (1944),' 'The Bishop's Wife (1947),' 'Kismet (1955)'
Starred on Broadway in 'The Man Who Came to Dinner,' 'On Your Toes,' 'Jubilee,' 'The New Yorkers'
Starred in the radio series 'The Magnificent Montague (1950-1951)'

Why he might be annoying:

He went by his middle name.
His nickname was 'The Beard.'
He was a flamboyant homosexual who would cruise the New York docks to pick up sailors.
His lover Cole Porter once showed up at a party with a bearded lady, whom he claimed was Woolley's sister.

Why he might not be annoying:

He played himself in Cole Porter's film biography 'Night and Day.'
He was a professor at Yale University whose students included Thornton Wilder.
He played his signature role of Sheridan Whiteside in 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on stage, film and television.
He was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Credit: Professor Moriarty

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Allegedly Gay Men
• Bears
• Footprints in Mann's Theater - Male
• I Attended Harvard
• I Attended Yale
• I Died in 1963 (Ranked: 74)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[U-Z]
• I Portrayed Myself
• Known By a Middle Name
• Mustaches
• Professor Moriarty's Profiles [Series 1]
• Profiles 11501-11750 (Ranked: 11720)
• Sheep Names
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19630506)
• Wizard Beards

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 190 Votes: 73.68% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 78 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 38 Votes: 44.74% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 37 Votes: 64.86% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 82 Votes: 52.44% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 101 Votes: 49.50% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 167 Votes: 61.08% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 130 Votes: 43.08% Annoying