Tragic Destinies at the Silent Times

1. Mace Greenleaf

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. Francis Boggs

Director | The Coquette

Francis Boggs is an obscure figure in the history of cinema, but an important one. It was he who brought the movies to Los Angeles in 1909 when he established a permanent L. A. film studio for the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company. In a four-year film career he wrote and directed nearly 200 ...

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 ...

4. John R. Cumpson

Actor | The Joke They Played on Bumptious

John R Cumpson was born in Buffalo, New York, one of the youngest in a large family. His father was a blacksmith. In 1887, John R Cumpson was listed in a Buffalo City Directory as a bank clerk, and in the 1890 census as a bookkeeper. He apparently soon set aside ledgers and took up a career in ...

5. Marshall P. Wilder

Actor | The Widow's Might

Marshall P. Wilder was born on September 19, 1859 in Geneva, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Widow's Might (1913), Professor Optimo (1912) and Marshall P. Wilder (1897). He was married to Mrs. Marshall P. Wilder. He died on January 10, 1915 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

6. Edwin R. Phillips

Director | A Life for a Life

Edwin R. Phillips was born in January 1872 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor and director, known for A Life for a Life (1910), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910) and Wisteria Memories (1911). He died on August 30, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

7. 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,...

8. 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.

9. 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 ...

10. Dorrit Weixler

Actress | Das rosa Pantöffelchen

Dorrit Weixler was born on March 27, 1892 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das rosa Pantöffelchen (1913), Die das Glück narrt (1913) and Todesrauschen (1914). She died on November 30, 1916 in Berlin, Germany.

11. Marshall Farnum

Director | The House of Mirrors

Marshall Farnum was born on December 19, 1879 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The House of Mirrors (1916), Wormwood (1915) and Lady Audley's Secret (1915). He was married to Helena M. Scott and Louise A. Lewis. He died on February 19, 1917 in Prescott, Arizona,...

12. 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 ...

13. Valdemar Psilander

Actor | Elskovsleg

Young Danish Valdemar tried to make a success in the theatre when he first appeared on Casino Teater in 1901. He never succeeded on the stage - his voice didn't sound right! But notices were otherwise kind to him.

Psilander was good-looking, charming and exuding a certain joie-de-vivre. He soon ...

14. 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...

15. 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, ...

16. Howell Hansel

Director | Colonel Carter of Cartersville

Howell Hansel was born in October 1871 in Raccoon Township, Indiana, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1915), The Million Dollar Mystery (1914) and The Road o' Strife (1915). He was married to Lucille Lee. He died on November 5, 1917 in New York City, New ...

17. Howard Missimer

Actor | A Mistaken Calling

Howard Missimer was born on November 17, 1867 in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for A Mistaken Calling (1912), The $5, 000, 000 Counterfeiting Plot (1914) and The Legacy of Happiness (1912). He was married to Carrie M. Shore and Mary O. Watts. He died on November 19, 1917 in...

18. Walter Hale

Actor | The Lightning Conductor

Walter Hale was born on August 4, 1869 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Lightning Conductor (1914), The Prisoner of Zenda (1913) and The Lambs' All-Star Gambol (1914). He was married to Louise Closser Hale. He died on December 4, 1917 in New York City, New York, ...

19. 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 ...

20. Franklin Ritchie

Actor | The Hungarian Nabob

Franklin Ritchie was born on June 26, 1865 in Ritchie, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hungarian Nabob (1915), Adam Bede (1915) and The Drab Sister (1915). He was married to Bertha A. Herman. He died on January 26, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

21. Joseph Kaufman

Director | A Woman Went Forth

Joseph Kaufman was born in 1882 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a director and actor, known for A Woman Went Forth (1915), The Traveling Salesman (1916) and Shirley Kaye (1917). He was married to Ethel Clayton. He died on February 1, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. William Sherwood

Actor | The Spell of the Yukon

William Sherwood was born in 1896 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Spell of the Yukon (1916), The Triumph of Venus (1918) and The Ventures of Marguerite (1915). He died on May 24, 1918 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

26. 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.

27. Mogens Enger

Director | Kinder der Liebe, 1. Teil

Mogens Enger was born on January 21, 1894 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor and director, known for Kinder der Liebe, 1. Teil (1919), Der Schuldschein des Pandola (1918) and Das Goldtal (1918). He died on October 9, 1918 in Berlin, Germany.

28. 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 ...

29. John H. Collins

Director | Children of Eve

John H. Collins was born on December 31, 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Children of Eve (1915), The Girl Without a Soul (1917) and Riders of the Night (1918). He was married to Viola Dana. He died on October 23, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA.

30. Louise Vale

Actress | Jane Eyre

Silent-film actress Louise Vale had a relatively short career--only five years. She made her film debut with The Girl of the Sunny South (1913) and ended her career five years later with Vengeance (1918). In addition to acting, she was also a screenwriter, and wrote Joan of the Woods (1918). She ...

31. William Wolbert

Actor | Willy Walrus, Detective

William Wolbert was born on November 18, 1883 in Petersburg, Virginia, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Willy Walrus, Detective (1914), That Devil, Bateese (1918) and The Last Man (1916). He died on December 12, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

32. Vera Kholodnaya

Actress | Zhizn za zhizn

Vera Kholodnaya was born on August 5, 1893 in Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Her Sister's Rival (1916), Stolichnyi iad (1917) and Deti veka (1915). She was married to Vladimir Kholodny. She died on February 17, 1919 in Odessa, Ukraine.

33. 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 ...

34. Betty Gray

Actress | His Last Dollar

Betty Gray was born Lilly Pederson. Her father, Neils Pederson, was born in Denmark and her mother Amalia was born in Sweden. She was the youngest of six children, After high school she studied at the New York school of Applied Art. She worked as an artists model and posed for Harrison Fisher who ...

35. Edward Abeles

Actor | Brewster's Millions

Edward Abeles was born on November 4, 1869 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Brewster's Millions (1914), The House of Mirth (1918) and After Five (1915). He was married to Charlotte Lander. He died on July 10, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA.

36. 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 ...

37. Alfred Paget

Actor | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Alfred Paget was born on June 2, 1879 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Intolerance (1916), Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917) and Martyrs of the Alamo (1915). He was married to Leila Halstead Paget. He died on October 8, 1919 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. Edna Hunter

Actress | The Unchastened Woman

Edna Hunter was born on April 9, 1876 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Unchastened Woman (1918), Half a Rogue (1916) and The Common Law (1916). She was married to Worden George Leveret Woods. She died on February 5, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.

41. 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 ...

42. 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.

43. 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 ...

44. George Loane Tucker

Director | The Miracle Man

A former railroad clerk, Tucker made a name for himself in 1913 with a film entitled Traffic in Souls (1913), a six-reel expose of white slavery. Tucker and Carl Laemmle financed the sum of $57,000 to make the film in New York, the film ultimately grossed $450,000. The success of the film enabled ...

45. Billie Ritchie

Actor | Life and Moving Pictures

Billie Ritchie was born in Scotland in 1874 and joined the world-renowned Karno Fun Factory and Comedy Troupe traveling the world with Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, among others. In 1914 he left Karno and began making silent films for director Henry "Pathe" Lehrman's L-Ko Comedy studios and then...

Chaplin's Inspirator

46. 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...

47. Enrico Caruso

Soundtrack | Match Point

Enrico Caruso (b. Errico Caruso) was born on February 25, 1873, in Naples, Italy. He was the third of seven children to a poor alcoholic father. He received little primary education and briefly studied music with conductor Vicenzo Lombardini. His early income was from singing serenades.

Caruso made ...

48. 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. ...

49. Katherine Griffith

Actress | Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Katherine Griffith was born on September 30, 1876 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1913), Huckleberry Finn (1920) and A Little Princess (1917). She was married to Harry Griffith. She died on October 17, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

50. Mary Miles Minter

Actress | Jenny Be Good

Little Mary Miles Minter was a child star who was dominated by her mother. At the age of 5 she first appeared on the stage in the play "Cameo Kirby". From that time on she worked steadily without a single vacation. Her greatest stage success was in "The Littlest Rebel", with William Farnum and ...

M.M.M. was daughter of Charlotte Shelby

51. William Desmond Taylor

Director | Happiness of Three Women

Born in Carlow, Ireland. Came to USA c. 1890. Worked as stage actor, engineer, antique dealer, gold miner. Entered silent film industry as actor in 1912; most noted film as actor was Captain Alvarez (1914) for Vitagraph. Directed first film for Balboa Films in 1914. Subsequently directed for ...

52. 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 ...

53. Charles Arling

Actor | Back to God's Country

Charles Arling was born on August 22, 1880 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Back to God's Country (1919), Number 99 (1920) and Droppington's Devilish Deed (1915). He died on April 21, 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

54. 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...

55. Ludwig Hartau

Actor | Anna Boleyn

Ludwig Hartau was born on February 19, 1877 in Trachenberg, Silesia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Deception (1920), Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin (1922) and Johann Baptiste Lingg (1920). He died on November 24, 1922 in Berlin, Germany.

56. 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 "...

57. Porter Strong

Actor | Way Down East

Porter Strong was born on December 27, 1878 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Way Down East (1920), Dream Street (1921) and A Romance of Happy Valley (1919). He died on June 11, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.

58. Bernard J. Durning

Director | The Primal Law

Bernard J. Durning was born on August 24, 1892 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Primal Law (1921), The Unwritten Code (1918) and The Eleventh Hour (1923). He was married to Shirley Mason. He died on August 29, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.

59. Raymond B. West

Director | Chicken Casey

Raymond B. West was born on February 11, 1886. He was a director and actor, known for Chicken Casey (1917), Madcap Madge (1917) and Borrowed Plumage (1917). He died in September 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

60. Allen Holubar

Actor | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Born in San Francisco's Castro District, Allen Holubar was the first of five children of Constantin Josef Holubar and Margaret Allen C. Holubar, who immigrated from Bohemia in 1875 and married Margaret, a Scots woman, in San Francisco (Allen was born at 44 Caselli Ave. in a house that still stands)...

61. 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), ...

62. 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 ...

63. Louis Delluc

Director | Fumée noire

Louis Delluc was born on October 14, 1890 in Le Buisson-de-Cadouin, Dordogne, France. He was a director and writer, known for Fumée noire (1920), The Woman from Nowhere (1922) and L'inondation (1924). He was married to Ève Francis. He died on March 22, 1924 in Paris, France.

64. Eva May

Actress | Die Fledermaus

Eva May was born Eva Maria Mandel on May 29, 1902 in Vienna, Austria. Her mother was actress Mia May and her father was producer and director Joe May. Eva made her film debut in her father's 1914 German film The Black Triangle. At the age of sixteen she married director Erik Lund. The couple worked...

65. 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...

66. Thomas H. Ince

Producer | The Devil

Thomas H. Ince was born into a family of stage actors. He appeared on the stage at age six and worked with a number of stock companies, making his Broadway debut at 15. Vaudeville work was inconsistent, so he was a lifeguard, a promoter and part-time actor. His stage career was a failure but by ...

Death causes: poisoning.

67. 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 ...

68. 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.

69. 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 ...

70. 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 ...

Silver Spurs

71. 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...

72. 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 ...

73. 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, ...

74. 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.

75. Charles Avery

Director | Love and Bullets

Charles Avery was born on May 28, 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Love and Bullets (1914), His Lying Heart (1916) and The Taming of the Shrew (1908). He was married to Elsa Clark, Margaret Ella Royster and Katherine Caroline Gormley. He died on July 23, 1926 ...

suicide

76. 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.

77. 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 ...

He died when had reached the peak of the fame

78. 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.

79. Cécile Guyon

Actress | Sapho

Cécile Guyon was born on December 4, 1890 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Sapho (1912), Les filles du saltimbanque (1912) and L'enfant prodigue (1916). She was married to Henri Bosc. She died on January 29, 1927 in Paris, France.

80. Lynn Reynolds

Director | Up and Going

Former newspaper reporter in Iowa, Reynolds played in several films for the Burton King Company before joining Universal as a writer/director. Reynolds shot himself, in front of guests, following an argument with his wife, actress Kathleen O'Connor, during a welcome home party being held in his ...

81. 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.

82. Earle Williams

Actor | The Scarlet Runner

Earle Williams was born on February 28, 1880 in Sacramento, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Scarlet Runner (1916), Arsene Lupin (1917) and The Wolf (1919). He was married to Florine Walz. He died on April 25, 1927 in Hollywood, California, USA.

83. 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 ...

84. Hughie Mack

Actor | Bringing Up Father

Hughie Mack was born on November 26, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bringing Up Father (1915), C.O.D. (1914) and As You Like It (1912). He was married to Mary Agnes McGowan. He died on October 13, 1927 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

85. Arnold Kent

Actor | Il processo Clémenceau

Italian actor who was brought to America as a young leading man, but died before living up to his promise. Born Lido Manetti, he studied civil engineering in his native Italy, but entered the theatre and then films subsequent to his schooling. After a number of Italian films, he was noticed by a ...

86. 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 ...

Thundering Hoofs (1924)

87. Marc McDermott

Actor | He Who Gets Slapped

Marc McDermott was born Marcus Patrick McDermott in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, on July 24, 1871. His father Patrick James McDermott and mother Annie Massey McDermott were born in Ireland, and Marc later became an English citizen when he moved to London. His younger sister May, was born ...

88. William Russell

Actor | The Roof Tree

Silent-film star William Russell was born in the Bronx, New York, in the late 1880s (various sources give it as 1884, 1886 and 1889). His mother, Clara, was a highly regarded stage actress. Russell studied law at Fordham University (and, some sources say, Harvard University). He started a law ...

89. 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...

90. Paul Leni

Director | The Man Who Laughs

Paul Leni was born on July 8, 1885 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an art director and director, known for The Man Who Laughs (1928), Das Rätsel von Bangalor (1918) and The Last Warning (1928). He died on September 2, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

death causes: poisoning. blood infection.

91. 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 ...

92. Leo D. Maloney

Actor | The Loser's End

Actor/producer/director Leo Maloney was owner of the Leo Maloney Studio located in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California. Several early westerns were filmed at the studio, which overlooked orange groves and included a small city that housed 35 people who lived there year-round. The ...

He committed suicide the day after The Crash Two-Gun of the Tumbleweed Overland Bound only as actor: The Lost Express(1917)

93. Kenneth Hawks

Director | Big Time

Kenneth Hawks, younger brother of director Howard Hawks by two years, and producer William Hawks by one year, was born in 1898 in Goshen, Indiana.

A veteran of World War I in the United States Army Air Service and, later, graduating from Yale University, he began directing films for Fox Film ...

Howard Hawks brother?

94. Dorothy Seastrom

Actress | Pretty Ladies

Dorothy Seastrom was born Dorothy Susan Seastrunk on March 17, 1903 in Dallas, Texas. Her father, Preston Seastrunk, was a bookkeeper. When she was a teenager she won a beauty contest and briefly lived in Chicago. Dorothy moved to Los Angeles and started dancing at Ambassador Hotel. She made her ...

95. 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 "...

96. Milton Sills

Actor | The Sea Hawk

American leading man of silent pictures. Born into affluence in Chicago, he attended the University of Chicago on scholarship and remained there as a professor of psychology and philosophy. A chance visit to the school by actor- manager Donald Robertson led to Sills abandoning his career and ...

97. Manfred Noa

Director | Helena

Manfred Noa was born on March 22, 1893 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and art director, known for Helen of Troy (1924), Berlin W. (1920) and Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil (1921). He died on December 5, 1930 in Berlin, Germany.

98. Louis Wolheim

Actor | All Quiet on the Western Front

It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim (Cornell '07) his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as ...

99. F. Richard Jones

Director | Flying Pat

One of the moving forces of early American silent comedy, F. Richard Jones made dozens of hilarious two-reel comedies for Mack Sennett in the mid-teens and early 1920s, featuring such stars as Louise Fazenda, Slim Summerville, Edgar Kennedy and Ben Turpin. He then graduated to feature films, first ...

100. F.W. Murnau

Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...