Arsenic and Old Lace?

Question:Who exactly was officer Brophy? I know he was a cop, but which one?

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Brophy enters and tells Aunt Abby that they came for the toys. His wife has pneumonia. He plays along a lot with Teddy's imagination, and salutes him. Brophy comes back later to tell the aunts that "there's hell to pay" 'cuz Teddy blew his bugle again, and tells O'Hara that he needs to go report at the station because they are all looking for him (which stops O'Hara from telling his ridiculous life story) Brophy calls the station to tell them they can "call off the big manhunt" (meaning that he found O'Hara at the house, and he will be down to the station soon...), but Jonathan is there, and HE thinks that they mean that they have found HIM (since he is a wanted murderer) When Jonathan tells the officers about the bodies in the basement, Brophy sides with the aunts, saying he is friends with them, and they wouldn't have dead bodies in the basement! When Jonathan attacks Officer Klein because he said Jonathan looks like Boris Karloff, it is Brophy who hits him over the head and knocks him out.
Officer O'Hara is the one who is the playwright who ignores Mortimer when he is in the chair, not Brophy.
Hope that helped!

If memory serves me Brophy is the aspiring playwright who ignores the fact that Mortimer is tied in a chair and takes advantage of that to tell him about his play.

Honey, I love you!

Not many people watch things like Arsenic and Old Lace nowadays =)

I think he was the cop who was a bit confused with the Theodore Roosevelt thing (lol!).. the younger of the two.