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Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : May 5 2024, 4:42:08 UTC Tiny, blue-eyed Ann Christy started in Silent films with a bit part in Long Pants (1927) with Harry Langdon. She was then signed by o...

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June Walker was an American stage and film actor. Note: Some secondary sources and her California death index state that she was born in 1900. On her U.S. passport application from 1923, she stated t...

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Conway Tearle was an American actor of the silent and early sound film era. He appeared in 93 films between 1914 and 1936. He was the half-brother of actor Godfrey Tearle.On December 16, 1931, Conway a...

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Actress. Born in Oxford, Maryland, she began her career on stage and in vaudeville, where she met and married actor Charley Grapewin. Together with her husband, she appeared in the Christie Comedies fi...

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Actor. Among his numerous stage and film roles, he is fondly remembered as Uncle Henry in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" and as Grandpa in the 1940 movie "The Grapes of Wrath." Reference: Find...

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Dorothy Vernon (born Dorothea Christine Arens, November 11, 1875 – October 28, 1970) was a German-born American film actress. Vernon was born Dorothea Christine Arens, the daughter of a Lighthouse war...

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Bobby Vernon (born Sylvion de Jardin (March 9, 1897 – June 28, 1939) was an American comedic actor in silent films. He later became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W. C. Fields and Bing...

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Bevan was born in the country town of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He went on the stage at an early age, traveled to Sydney and spent eight years in Australian light opera, performing as Willie ...

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Tessie Harron appeared in D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World in a minor but striking role, and was scheduled to appear in his next production, before her early death from influenza.* Reference: Find A...

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Actor. The younger brother of actor Robert Harron, he made his screen debut with a small role in D. W. Griffith's "Hearts of the World" (1918). After Robert Harron's mysterious death in 1920, John sudd...

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Actor. He was a silent movie actor of the early 1900s. He is featured in the 1914 film "Judith of Bethulia," and played four different roles in D.W. Griffith's 1915 classic "Birth of a Nation." Born in...

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Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, and television, especially in the arena of voice work for animated ca...

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Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy : Feb 28 2024, 5:38:03 UTC Actress, Author. Gene Gauntier received world-wide recognition as an American silent film star. She appeared in 87 silent film...

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Rose Langdon was born on 4 September 1882 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for The Road to Mandalay (1926). She was married to J.J. Clark and Harry Langdon. She died on 27 Januar...

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Jack Clark-He was an American director and actor of the early motion picture industry. Born John J. Clark in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania he became a theatrical actor and was induced to enter motion pict...

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Comedian. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Langdon was best known as a Vaudevillian and film comedian. He appeared in circuses and vaudeville shows nationwide until 1924, then joined the Hollywood throng ...

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owa-born Chester Conklin was raised in a coal-mining area by a devoutly religious father who hoped that his son would go into the ministry. However, Chester got the performing bug one day when he gave ...

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Actor, Comedian, Motion Picture Director, Screenwriter. Born Charles Joseph Parrott, he began action in motion picture comedies in the early 1910s. Like many other early movie comedians, he began his c...

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Director, Screenwriter, Actor. A comedy specialist, he directed several of Laurel & Hardy's funniest films. They include the Oscar-winning classic "The Music Box" (1932), the team's first feature, "Par...

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Todd was born in New York City in 1904, the daughter of Eugene Parker Todd and Minnie Todd. Before Todd became an actress, she was assistant designer for the Ziegfeld Follies. She used those skills to ...

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