Lipson played character parts, and was usually uncredited. Due to his rotund, towering figure, Lipson gained the nickname "Tiny" and was usually cast as the "fat guy" in films. He played the role of King Vultan the 1936 serial
Flash Gordon. In 1941, he appeared in
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break as a Turkish passenger aboard an airplane with
W. C. Fields, whose mumbled remarks about the passenger's size prompt the retort, "You a big nose have it!" Two years later, Lipson portrayed a German sailor in the
Three Stooges' short
Back from the Front, in which he is knocked unconscious and collapses on top of a suffocating
Larry Fine.
Moe Howard comes to the rescue and quips, "Whoa, a German whale!". ==Death==