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by adrian-dahl | created - 22 Jan 2012 | updated - 26 Dec 2018 | Publicstars who died way too young
1. Mace Greenleaf
Actor | Falling Leaves
Mace Greenleaf began as a stage actor starring and supporting in many popular plays, perhaps his best known roles was as Herbert, the King's Forrester in 'The Prisoner of Zenda' in the 1890's and in 1898 played Mr. Hunston in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'Trelawny of the Wells' at the Lyceum ...
2. Vedah Bertram
Actress | Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
Vedah Bertram born Adele Buck in Massachusetts into a prominent Boston family, her father Jerome Buck, a wealthy newspaper publisher. Film cowboy star G.M. Anderson saw her photograph in a Boston society column, he decided to contact her and asked her to be his co-star in his Broncho Billy western ...
3. Florence Barker
Actress | Choosing a Husband
Florence Barker was born on November 22, 1891 in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Norman Barker, was a farmer and she had four siblings. When she was a teenager she began acting with stock companies. She fell in love with actor Joe De Grasse, who was 18 years her senior; they moved in together ...
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4. Joseph Graybill
Actor | White Roses
Joseph Graybill was born on April 14, 1887 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for White Roses (1910), The Primal Call (1911) and Winning Back His Love (1910). He died on August 3, 1913 in New York City, New York, USA.
5. Elmer Booth
Writer | His Auto's Maiden Trip
Elmer Booth was born on December 9, 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for His Auto's Maiden Trip (1912), Why He Gave Up (1911) and Abe Gets Even with Father (1911). He was married to Irene Outtrim. He died on June 16, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
6. Arthur V. Johnson
Actor | The Beloved Adventurer
Arthur V. Johnson was born on February 2, 1876 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Beloved Adventurer (1914), Annie Rowley's Fortune (1913) and The Adventures of Dollie (1908). He was married to Maude Webb. He died on January 17, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,...
7. Page Peters
Actor | Madame la Presidente
Page Peters was born in 1889. He was an actor, known for Madame la Presidente (1916), The Gentleman from Indiana (1915) and The Call of the Cumberlands (1916). He died on June 22, 1916 in Hermosa Beach, California, USA.
8. Sydney Ayres
Actor | The Man from Argentina
Handsome, dark wavy-haired leading man who appeared on the New York stage, starred in early silent films (1-3 reelers) as well as directed and wrote scenarios. Worked for various studios including Edison, American, Powers, Rex, Big U (Universal), Laemmle, Nestor and Selig. Still working until the ...
9. Fred Mace
Director | Without Hope
Mace was a dentist from Erie, Pennsylvania who at one point did some stage stock work for Mack Sennett. Heading west, he worked for Carl Laemmle and Thomas H. Ince before settling back with Sennett. After achieving success as the Chief of the Keystone Kops, he quit Sennett and opened his own ...
10. Fatty Voss
Actor | Fatty's Feature Fillum
Fatty Voss was born on October 12, 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Fatty's Feature Fillum (1917), Pirates of the Air (1916) and Shot in a Bar Room (1915). He died on April 22, 1917 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
11. Florence La Badie
Actress | The Million Dollar Mystery
Early information on Florence La Badie is sketchy. She is thought to have been born in New York City in 1888, and was either taken away from or given up for adoption by her birth mother. Florence was adopted by a married couple named LaBadie, who legally gave the child their last name. Her adoptive...
12. Jack Standing
Actor | The Evangelist
Jack Standing was born on February 10, 1886 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Evangelist (1916), A Father's Love (1913) and The Perils of Pauline (1914). He was married to Patricia Dorothy Harcourt and Catherine Doucet. He died on October 26, 1917 in Los Angeles, California, ...
13. Eric Campbell
Actor | Behind the Screen
Campbell was born in Sale, Cheshire on 26th April 1880 and began acting as a boy. He married fellow music hall performer Fanny Gertrude Robotham on March 30, 1901 and was later hired by English music hall impresario Fred Karno for his "Fun Factory" comedy troupes that featured other comics like a ...
14. William Courtleigh Jr.
Actor | Neal of the Navy
William Courtleigh Jr. was born on June 28, 1892 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Neal of the Navy (1915), The Better Man (1914) and Out of the Drifts (1916). He was married to Ethel Fleming. He died on March 13, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
15. Lillian Cook
Actress | The Blue Bird
Lillian Cook was born on May 16, 1898 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Blue Bird (1918), The Submarine Eye (1917) and Camille (1915). She died on March 14, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.
16. William Hinckley
Actor | The Wayward Son
William Hinckley was born on September 11, 1894. He was an actor, known for The Wayward Son (1915), The Burned Hand (1915) and The Lily and the Rose (1915). He died on May 4, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.
17. S. Rankin Drew
Actor | The Belle of the Season
Silent film actor and director, son of Sidney Drew and his first wife, Mrs. Sidney Drew, and first cousin of actors John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Ethel Barrymore. Although his famous parents had hoped for him to choose another career than the theatre and sent him to military school, the ...
18. Lillian Peacock
Actress | Hiram's Inheritance
While filming a comedy in 1918, Lillian fell while leaping from one running automobile to another. She suffered severe internal injuries but was able to appear before the cameras again later on. However, during a later filming, the injuries sustained in the previous accident, caused her to become ...
19. True Boardman
Actor | Tarzan of the Apes
True Boardman was born on April 21, 1880 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Tarzan of the Apes (1918), Stingaree (1915) and The Further Adventures of Stingaree (1917). He was married to Virginia True Boardman. He died on September 28, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
20. Lawrence Peyton
Actor | Martin Eden
Lawrence Peyton born in Hartford, Kentucky in 1895. Handsome, wavy haired athletic star of many silent drama, comedy and westerns, first starred at the age of 18 in a short western 'The Range Deadline' made at the Nestor Film Company in 1913, followed with the Majestic Motion Picture Company in ...
21. Arthur Moon
Actor | A Lislebank
Arthur Moon was born on March 23, 1889 in Garden City, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for A Lislebank (1917), Without Honor (1918) and The Mechanical Man (1915). He was married to Donna Drew. He died on October 17, 1918 in Helena, Montana, USA.
22. Harold Lockwood
Actor | The Promise
A former salesman and vaudeville and stage actor, Harold Lockwood was one of the earliest romantic stars of American films. He was paired with Mary Pickford, Kathlyn Williams and Dorothy Davenport, among others, but his most popular films had him as the lover of May Allison, and they became one of ...
23. Myrtle Gonzalez
Actress | The Level
Myrtle Gonzalez was born on September 28, 1891 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Level (1914), The Little Sheriff (1914) and The Chalice of Courage (1915). She was married to Allen Watt and J. Parks Jones. She died on October 22, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
24. Julian L'Estrange
Actor | Bella Donna
Julian L'Estrange was born on August 6, 1880 in Weston-super-Mare, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Bella Donna (1915), The Girl with the Green Eyes (1916) and The Morals of Marcus (1915). He was married to Constance Collier. He died on October 22, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.
25. Charles Gunn
Actor | An Even Break
Charles Gunn was born on July 31, 1883 in Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for An Even Break (1917), Sherlock Holmes Solves the Sign of the Four (1913) and Framing Framers (1917). He was married to Nina. He died on December 6, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
26. George Gebhardt
Actor | The Puppet Crown
George Gebhardt was born on September 21, 1879 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor and director, known for The Puppet Crown (1915), A Woman's Way (1908) and The Chosen Prince, or the Friendship of David and Jonathan (1917). He was married to Mrs. George Gebhardt. He died on May 2, 1919 in ...
27. Lamar Johnstone
Actor | The Ne'er-Do-Well
Lamar Johnstone was born on March 15, 1884 in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ne'er Do Well (1915), Robin Hood (1912) and The Holy City (1912). He died on May 21, 1919 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
28. Clifford Bruce
Actor | Lady Audley's Secret
Clifford Bruce born in Toronto, Canada in 1885, a well-built touch performer who supported in many American silent drama, westerns and action-serial's, first with the Selig Film Company in 1913, followed by Fox studios and later the Metro Film Company in the late 1910's, he's perhaps best ...
29. Dee Lampton
Actor | Drama's Dreadful Deal
Dee Lampton was born on October 6, 1898 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Drama's Dreadful Deal (1917), Schemer Skinny's Scandal (1917) and Skinny Routs a Robber (1917). He died on September 2, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA.
30. William Parsons
Producer | Tarzan of the Apes
William Parsons was born on August 14, 1878 in Middletown, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Tarzan of the Apes (1918), The Romance of Tarzan (1918) and Lightning Bryce (1919). He was married to Billie Rhodes. He died on September 28, 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
31. William Stowell
Actor | Fighting Mad
William Stowell was born on March 13, 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Fighting Mad (1917), Fires of Rebellion (1917) and A Doll's House (1917). He died on November 24, 1919 in Elizabethville, Belgian Congo.
32. Hazel Neason
Actress | The Garden of Fate
Hazel Neason was born on August 16, 1891 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for The Garden of Fate (1910), Ida's Christmas (1912) and The Lair of the Wolf (1912). She was married to Albert E. Smith. She died on January 24, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
33. Leo Delaney
Actor | As You Like It
Leo Delaney was born on March 15, 1885 in Swanton, Vermont, USA. He was an actor, known for As You Like It (1912), The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919) and A Tin-Type Romance (1910). He died on February 4, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
34. Clarine Seymour
Actress | Scarlet Days
Clarine Seymour born to Albert and Florence Seymour in Brooklyn, New York in 1898. Her father ran a ribbon manufacturing business, in 1917 her father became so ill that he had no choice but to close his successful business and so Clarine secured work through the Thanhouser Film Company, which was ...
35. Suzanne Grandais
Actress | Graziella la gitane
Suzanne Grandais was born on June 14, 1893 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Graziella, the Gypsy (1912), L'essor (1921) and Suzanne (1916). She died on August 28, 1920 in Vaudoy-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France.
36. Robert Harron
Actor | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Today screen actor Robert (Bobby) Harron is one of Hollywood's forgotten souls, although he was a huge celebrity in his time and graced some of the silent screen's most enduring masterpieces. A talented, charismatic star in his heyday, Bobby had everything going for him but died far too young to ...
37. Olive Thomas
Actress | Beatrice Fairfax
Oliva R. Duffy was born on October 20, 1894, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers. Olive or Ollie, as she was known to family and friends, did not have much of a childhood. Life in industrial Pittsburgh (at the time, spelled "Pittsburg") was depressing...
38. Virginia Rappe
Actress | Paradise Garden
An actress best known for her death, her controversial demise occurred the day after being discovered in a hotel bedroom during a party that involved a large amount of alcohol consumption. Actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was the last person seen with Rappe before she was found seriously injured. ...
39. B. Reeves Eason Jr.
Actor | The Big Adventure
Master Breezy Reeves Jr, born Reeves Barnes Eason, also billed as "Breezy" Eason Jr, was born in California in 1914, son of actor/film director B. (William) Reeves Eason and actress Jimsy Mayo. Handsome, cute blonde boy who starred in mostly westerns from the age of two. He was known as '...
40. Florence Deshon
Actress | Twins of Suffering Creek
Florence Deshon born to Samuel and Florence C. Danks of Austrian and English descent. She began as a stage actress and appeared opposite Mary Boland in 'My Lady's Dress and in the comedy 'Seven Chances' prior to making her screen debut in 1915's 'The Beloved Vagabond' directed by Edward Jose for ...
41. Bobby Connelly
Actor | The Heart of Sonny Jim
Child star Bobby Connelly, the son of vaudeville actors, was born April 4, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York. He made his first screen appearance in 1912. In 1913, he joined the Vitagraph Company, whose studio was just a short distance from his home. While at Vitagraph, he starred in a series of shorts as...
42. Wallace Reid
Actor | Carmen
The son of writer-theater producer-director-actor Hal Reid, Wallace was on stage by the age of four in the act with his parents. He spent most of his early years, not on the stage, but in private schools where he excelled in music and athletics. In 1910, his father went to the Chicago studio of "...
43. Sidney Mason
Actor | Orphan Sally
Sidney Mason was born on September 26, 1886 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Orphan Sally (1922), The Good-Bad Wife (1920) and The Seven Sisters (1915). He was married to Marie Mason (née Van). He died on March 1, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
44. Joseph McDermott
Actor | Perils of the Yukon
Joseph McDermott was born in December 1878 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Perils of the Yukon (1922), The Wife's Stratagem (1914) and The First Piano in Camp (1915). He died on March 6, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
45. Evelyn Nelson
Actress | Peaceful Peters
Evelyn Nelson was born Dorris Evelyn Nelson on November 13, 1899 in Chloride, Arizona. Her father was a miner and cattle owner. When she was a child her family moved to Los Angeles, California. She started her career at Bull's Eye films and appeared in the 1920 comedy Don't Park Here. Evelyn was ...
46. Martha Mansfield
Actress | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stunning silent screen actress Martha Mansfield was a musical comedy star in New York City by the time she entered films in 1916 for Max Linder. Before long she advanced to second leads in features, including the role of Millicent Carew in the John Barrymore starrer Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), ...
47. Jean Sothern
Actress | The Mysteries of Myra
Jean Sothern was born on December 5, 1893 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Mysteries of Myra (1916), Whoso Findeth a Wife (1916) and A Mother's Ordeal (1917). She died on April 14, 1964 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
48. Lillian Drew
Actress | Ruggles of Red Gap
The beautiful Lillian Drew was born in Chicago in 1886. Lillian became a highly popular musical comedy theatre star from the mid 1900's, often appearing with her husband actor E.H. Calvert. Later Lillian a gorgeous brunette starred in more than 90 drama and comedy films and became known as Lily of ...
49. Kamuela C. Searle
Actor | The Sea Wolf
Samuel Cooper Seale was born to John Cooper and Sara Yates Seale in Waiohinu, Kau, Hawaii. He met Cecil B. DeMille on the beach at Waikiki in 1915, and took his advice to go to Hollywood where he appeared in at least two of DeMille's movies. He enlisted in the Army with the outbreak of World War I ...
50. Billy Armstrong
Actor | The Bank
Billy Armstrong was born on January 14, 1891 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Bank (1915), Up in Alf's Place (1919) and Down on the Farm (1920). He was married to Marion Parker. He died on March 1, 1924 in Sunland, California, USA.
51. J.B. Warner
Actor | Big Stakes
James Byron Warner was the younger brother of H.B. Warner and the son of Charles Warner, a prominent English stage actor, whose own father James Warner, whom J.B. was named after, was also a famous actor.
Born in Nebraska in 1895, the handsome J.B. joined the Warner family profession, though--unlike...
52. Lucille Ricksen
Actress | Behind the Curtain
Lucille Ricksen was born Ingeborg Erickson in Chicago, Illinois on August 22, 1910. She worked a child model and made her film debut at age 5. Her parents separated and her mother took her to Hollywood in 1920, and 10-year-old Lucille was offered a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and starred in a ...
53. David Powell
Actor | Missing Millions
David Powell was born on December 17, 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Missing Millions (1922), The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915) and Fine Feathers (1915). He died on April 16, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.
54. Max Linder
Actor | Seven Years Bad Luck
Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy, Max Linder is in many ways as important a figure as Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd, not least because he predated (and influenced) them all by several years and was largely responsible for the creation of the classic ...
55. Lester Cuneo
Actor | The Means and the End
A stage actor since his early teenage years, Lester Cuneo made his first film, a comedy short, in 1910. It was quite successful, and he soon began appearing in a series of comedy shorts, which he also directed. Tiring of comedies, he decided to make himself a cowboy star and turned to making ...
56. Mrs. Sidney Drew
Actress | The Amateur Liar
Lucille McVey was a writer at Vitagraph when she met Sidney Drew shortly after his wife's death. They married almost immediately although he was more than twice her age. She scripted and he directed a number of domestic comedies, said to be more subtle and wholesome than those previously filmed. ...
57. Marguerite Marsh
Actress | Runaway June
Marguerite Marsh was born Marguerite Clarice Marsh on April 18, 1888 in Lawrence, Kansas. Marguerite was the oldest of seven children, After her father died her mother moved the family to Los Angeles, California. She briefly worked as a nurse before deciding to pursue a career on the stage. In 1907...
58. Lottie Lyell
Actress | The Sentimental Bloke
Lottie Lyell has been called Australia's first movie star - which makes it all the more tragic that little of her work survives. That which does provides ample proof of her prodigious and versatile talent. The actress called the `gladsome centaur' by one critic (for her formidable talent as a ...
59. Mary Thurman
Actress | A Bride for a Knight
Mary Thurman was born Mary Christiansen on April 27, 1895, in Richfield, Utah. She was one of seven children raised in the Mormon faith. Sadly her father passed away when she was nine. Mary attended the University of Utah and got a job as a teacher. In 1915 she took a trip to Hollywood. A talent ...
60. Barbara La Marr
Actress | The Eternal City
Barbara La Marr was born in Yakima, Washington, on July 28, 1896, as Reatha Watson. Her childhood was mostly uneventful, mainly because Yakima--today a medium-sized city with a population of over 50, 000-wasn't exactly a beehive of activity. Her parents eventually moved to the Los Angeles area, ...
61. J. Herbert Frank
Actor | Scandal
J. Herbert Frank was born on May 12, 1885 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Scandal (1917), Destruction (1915) and Up and at 'Em (1922). He died on March 7, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
62. Willard Louis
Actor | Babbitt
Willard Louis was born on April 19, 1882 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Babbitt (1924), Beau Brummel (1924) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1917). He was married to Maude Louis. He died on July 22, 1926 in Glendale, California, USA.
63. Joe Moore
Actor | The Golden Web
Joe Moore was born on November 22, 1894 in County Meath, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Golden Web (1926), Goat Getter (1925) and Love's Battle (1920). He was married to Grace Cunard. He died on August 22, 1926 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
64. Rudolph Valentino
Actor | The Eagle
Hollywood's original Latin Lover, a term that was invented for Rudolph Valentino by Hollywood moguls. Alla Nazimova's friend Natacha Rambova (nee Winifred Hudnut) became romantically involved with Rudy and they lived together in her bungalow from 1921 (during the filming of Camille) until they ...
65. Eddie Lyons
Actor | Everything But the Truth
Eddie Lyons was born on November 25, 1886 in Beardstown, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Everything But the Truth (1920), All Bound Around (1919) and Good Night, Ladies (1919). He was married to Virginia Kirtley. He died on August 30, 1926 in Pasadena, California, USA.
66. Tom Forman
Director | The Broken Wing
Tom Forman was born on February 22, 1893 in Mitchell County, Texas, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Broken Wing (1923), The Fighting American (1924) and To Have and to Hold (1916). He was married to Mary Mersch. He died on November 7, 1926 in Venice, California, USA.
67. Charles Emmett Mack
Actor | Driven
Charles Emmett Mack was born on November 25, 1895 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Driven (1923), Dream Street (1921) and Old San Francisco (1927). He was married to Marianne Lovera (actress). He died on March 17, 1927 in Riverside, California, USA.
68. Einar Hanson
Actor | Barbed Wire
Einar Hanson was born on June 16, 1899 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Barbed Wire (1927), Livet på landet (1924) and Skeppargatan 40 (1925). He died on June 3, 1927 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
69. Robert McKim
Actor | All the Brothers Were Valiant
Married to actresses Dorcas Matthews and Ottie Ardine, George got his start at 14 years of age, as a singing and dancing waiter in Chicago. McKim began a long career on the stage with the Alcazar stock company in San Francisco. In vaudeville, he teamed for many years with Johnny Cantwell. He later ...
70. Earl Metcalfe
Actor | Ignorance
On 26 January 1928, Metcalfe was taking his fifth lesson in how to pilot an aeroplane, flying over Glendale with Roy Wilson, an instructor from the Wilson Aero Service of that city. During the course of the lesson, Metcalf suddenly took an unexpected loop, and was hurled from the plane, falling to ...
71. Clara Williams
Actress | The Criminal
Clara Williams was born on May 3, 1888 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for The Criminal (1916), The Market of Vain Desire (1916) and A Cowboy's Vindication (1910). She was married to Reginald Barker and Franklyn Hall. She died on May 8, 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
72. Ward Crane
Actor | Sherlock Jr.
American actor of silent films. A native of Albany, New York, the son of a railroad engineer, he began a career in government, serving as confidential stenographer and then secretary to Governor William Sulzer of New York. Sulzer's impeachment and removal from office left Crane without a job, and ...
73. Larry Semon
Director | The Show
Slapstick comedian known for his charming, white-painted face and clownish smile, mugged his way to being a very highly paid and popular actor. His career was marred by personal problems, and his fortune was lost to high spending. By the time he died, he'd already been hospitalized for a nervous ...
74. Fred Thomson
Actor | A Regular Scout
All but forgotten today, Fred Thomson was a silent movie westerner who at one time rivaled 1920s heroes Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson in popularity. Unlike the early, myth-inducing demise of a Rudolph Valentino or Jean Harlow, Fred's untimely death of tetanus prevented the actor, who was at one time ...
75. Gladys Brockwell
Actress | Lights of New York
The daughter of actress Billie Brockwell, Brockwell first appeared on the stage at the age of three. She made her screen debut in Philadelphia for the Lubin Company in 1913, later working with D.W. Griffith. Joining Fox Studios, Brockwell was one of the busiest actresses in town and easily made the...
76. Jeanne Eagels
Actress | The Letter
Jeanne Eagels, one of the most intriguing stars of late silent films and the early talkies, was born Amelia Jean Eagles on June 26, 1890 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Edward and Julia Sullivan Eagles. Young Jean was part of an impoverished family of eight, with three brothers and two sisters. She ...
77. Mabel Normand
Actress | Mickey
Mabel Normand was one of the comedy greats of early film. In an era when women are deemed 'not funny enough' it seems film history has forgotten her contributions. Her films debuted the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin's tramp and the pie in the face gag. She co-starred with both Chaplin and Roscoe "...
78. Diane Ellis
Actress | The Cradle Snatchers
Diane Ellis was born Jeanne Diane Ellis on December 20, 1909 in Los Angeles, California. He father Walter Ellis was a butcher. After her mother died Diane was raised by her grandparents. She attended Virgil Junior High and Fairfax High School. The beautiful blonde got a job working as a secretary ...
79. Art Acord
Actor | Set Free
Art Acord was born on April 17, 1890 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Set Free (1927), The Set-Up (1926) and Winners of the West (1921). He was married to Edna Nores, Edythe Sterling and Louise Lorraine. He died on January 4, 1931 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
80. Alma Rubens
Actress | The Rejected Woman
Alma Rubens was born Alma Genevieve Reubens in San Francisco, California. She was interested in entertaining at an early age. Like most young girls, she enjoyed fantasy play acting and by the time she was 19 had become a full-fledged star. She didn't have to wait long like some of the starlets who ...
81. Dick Hatton
Actor | Two Fisted Justice
Dick Hatton was born on November 11, 1888 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Two Fisted Justice (1924), The Seventh Sheriff (1923) and Speeding Hoofs (1927). He was married to Annette Ophelia Burger. He died on July 9, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
82. Robert Williams
Actor | Platinum Blonde
It's fair to say that if 'Frank Capra (I)' hadn't cast Robert "Bobby" Williams in his 1931 film Platinum Blonde (1931) the actor would be entirely forgotten today. When the movie was made available on video in the 1980s the promotional copy on the video box emphasized the names most buffs would ...
83. Lya De Putti
Actress | Othello
The daughter of a Hungarian baroness and a military officer, Lya De Putti went on to perform classical ballet in Berlin, Germany, after a brief stint in Hungarian vaudeville. She later made several films at the German UFA studios, most notably Variety (1925), before going to Hollywood in 1926. ...
84. Norma Phillips
Actress | Our Mutual Girl
Norma Phillips was born in 1893 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Our Mutual Girl (1914), Runaway June (1915) and Forget-Me-Not (1917). She was married to Robert Gleckler. She died on November 12, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA.
85. Peg Entwistle
Actress | Thirteen Women
Peg Entwistle was born on February 5, 1908 in Port Talbot, Wales at the home of her maternal grandparents, John and Caroline Stevenson because Caroline was to act as midwife. Peg's mother was Emily Stevenson Entwistle and her father was actor/ stage manager Robert Symes Entwistle (1872-1922). They ...
86. Belle Bennett
Actress | Stella Dallas
Belle Bennett's parents were William and Mary Bendon (stage name Bennett). They appeared in "Billy Bennett's Big Shows" which were traveling shows appearing in tents and local 'opera' houses. The shows presented vaudeville acts and melodramas. Belle was headlining in her teens before moving on to ...
87. Jack Pickford
Actor | Brown of Harvard
Nepotism certainly has had its advantages in Hollywood, none more so than in the cinematic career of Jack Pickford, whose famous older sis, "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, saw to it that Jack had every advantage her star weight could muster. In Jack's case, it only added fuel to a ...
88. Renée Adorée
Actress | The Big Parade
Renee Adoree was born Jeanne de la Fontein in Lille in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, on September 30, 1898. She had what one could call a normal childhood. Her background is, perhaps, one of the most difficult to find information on any actress in existence. What we do know that her interest in ...
89. Lillian Hall-Davis
Actress | The Ring
Lilian Hall Davis was born June 23, 1898, in Mile End, London, England, the daughter of a London cab driver. For publicity purposes, she changed the spelling of her name to to the tonier Lillian Hall-Davis and reported her birthplace as the more fashionable Hampstead, London. She began acting in ...
90. Hugh Trevor
Actor | The Royal Bed
Educated at Collegiate Prepitory-Columbia Extension Institute, Hugh Trevor-Thomas was planning an altogether different future for himself until following the advice of his distant relative, producer William Le Baron. He left New York where he had successfully begun his own insurance company (Thomas...
91. Lilyan Tashman
Actress | The Matrimonial Bed
Lilyan Tashman was born on October 23, 1896 in Brooklyn, New York to Rose (Cook) from Germany and Morris Tashman from Bialystock, Poland. After toying with stage work, Lilyan made her film debut with Experience (1921), followed the next year by Head Over Heels (1922) (this was at a time when some ...
92. Dorothy Dell
Actress | Little Miss Marker
Dorothy Dell was born to Elbert and Lillan Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 30, 1915. She won the most beautiful baby in Hattiesburg beauty contest when she was thirteen months old. She lived in New Orleans from the age of ten. She attended the Sophie Wright High School for girls. ...
93. Russ Columbo
Soundtrack | Raging Bull
Russ Columbo was born on January 14, 1908 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Raging Bull (1980), Magic in the Moonlight (2014) and Wake Up and Dream (1934). He died on September 2, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
94. Francelia Billington
Actress | Blind Husbands
Francelia Billington was born in Dallas, Texas, where she was raised on a ranch and became an expert horsewoman. The pretty young Texan was also on stage from a young age and soon journeyed to Hollywood and became a star of westerns and melodramas, first working with the Kalem Film Co. in 1912, ...
95. Junior Durkin
Actor | Recaptured Love
Quiet, benign, blue-eyed, rangy-framed child/teen actor Junior Durkin, who was an absolute natural on film and possessed major "down home" appeal, showed strong promise in just the few 1930s films he appeared in. A fatal roadster accident quickly ended the dreams of this young "Henry Fonda" type ...
96. Marjorie White
Actress | Sunnyside Up
Pretty-as-a-picture Marjorie White was a charming comedienne, and although she was never the star, she stole many scenes from stars. She co-starred with some of the leading comedians of the day, such as Wheeler and Woolsey, the Three Stooges, and Joe E. Brown, and brought smiles to the faces of ...
97. Edith Roberts
Actress | Speed Mad
Edith Roberts was born in New York City on September 17, 1899. She was a starstruck 19-year-old when she made her debut in The Deciding Kiss (1918). Although she didn't get the acclaim that her more successful counterparts did, she remained very busy throughout the decade and into the 1920s. After ...
98. Gordon Westcott
Actor | The World Changes
Gordon Westcott was born on November 6, 1903 in St. George, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for The World Changes (1933), Dark Hazard (1934) and 6 Day Bike Rider (1934). He was married to Anne Weston Brandreth, Hazel Betha McArthur and Margaret Cardon. He died on October 30, 1935 in Hollywood, ...
99. Thelma Todd
Actress | Horse Feathers
Thelma Todd was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, an industrial city near the New Hampshire state line. She was a lovely child with good academic tendencies, so much so that she decided early on to become a schoolteacher. After high school she went on to college but at her mother's insistence ...
100. John Gilbert
Actor | The Big Parade
John Gilbert was born into a show-business family - his father was a comic with the Pringle Stock Company. By 1915 John was an extra with Thomas H. Ince's company and a lead player by 1917. In those days he was assistant director, actor or screenwriter. He also tried his hand at directing. By 1919 ...
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