Catholic Motion Picture Guild of America board members (1929)
by cts-6 | created - 10 Mar 2015 | updated - 10 Mar 2015 | PublicA list to show that not all silent film stars and studio personnel were complete hedonists. From the 1929 Motion Picture Almanac, page 165.
Names listed with no matching IMDb page: James F. Cooney, Executive Secretary; Ina Mae Merrill, Corresponding Secretary; James J. Dunn [may be James Dunne (I)], Executive Committee; John J. Gain, Executive Committee; Edward Mannix, Executive Committee; Eddie Albright, Entertainment Committee; Ben Piazza [may be Ben Piazza (II)], Entertainment Committee; Frederic Schader, Publicity Committee, Chairman; Francis J. Murray, Publicity Committee; Jack Bolan, Membership Committee; William Low, Membership Committee; and Jack Wiggins, Membership Committee.
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1. John W. Considine Jr.
Producer | Puttin' on the Ritz
John W. Considine Jr. was born on October 7, 1898 in Spokane, Washington, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Puttin' on the Ritz (1930), Mad Love (1935) and Evelyn Prentice (1934). He was married to Carmen Elrene Pantages. He died on March 22, 1961 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, ...
President
2. Johnny Hines
Actor | Little Johnny Jones
Johnny Hines was born on July 25, 1895 in Golden, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Little Johnny Jones (1923), Whistling in the Dark (1933) and The Live Wire (1925). He was married to Irma Warner. He died on October 24, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Vice President
3. Tom Gallery
Actor | The Limited Mail
Tom Gallery was born on November 27, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Limited Mail (1925), One-Round Hogan (1927) and Dinty (1920). He was married to Lillian Anna Fette and Zasu Pitts. He died on August 25, 1993 in Encino, California, USA.
Vice President
4. Colleen Moore
Actress | So Big
Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison in Port Huron, Michigan. Her father was an irrigation engineer and his job was good enough to provide the family a middle-class environment. She was educated in parochial schools and studied at the famed Detroit Conservatory. Colleen's family moved to ...
Vice President
5. James Ryan
Writer | A Daughter of the Confederacy
James Ryan is known for A Daughter of the Confederacy (1913), My Partner (1916) and Miss 139 (1921).
Vice President
6. Charles McHugh
Actor | Babbitt
Charles McHugh was born on July 20, 1870 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Babbitt (1924), The Girl of the Golden West (1923) and Cupid's Fireman (1923). He died on October 21, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Vice President
7. May McAvoy
Actress | The Jazz Singer
Silent-screen star May McAvoy was born in an upscale area of New York City. Her well-to-do family owned and operated a large livery stable situated where the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel now stands. She initially wanted to be a teacher but became intrigued with show business after watching a friend ...
Treasurer
8. June Collyer
Actress | The Ghost Walks
June Collyer was born Dorothea Heermance in New York City on August 19, 1906. She began her career in the film East Side, West Side (1927). After making the successful change to the sound era, June continued to work, something some of her counterparts couldn't do. She appeared on the silver screen ...
Corresponding Secretary
9. Malcolm McGregor
Actor | Broken Chains
Malcolm McGregor was born on October 13, 1892 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Broken Chains (1922), All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923) and Money to Burn (1926). He died on April 29, 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Corresponding Secretary
10. Jack Coogan Sr.
Writer | Daddy
Jack Coogan Sr. was born on January 21, 1887 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Daddy (1923), Trouble (1922) and Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927). He was married to Lillian Coogan. He died on May 4, 1935 in San Diego, California, USA.
Executive Committee, Chairman
11. C.C. Burr
Producer | The Western Limited
C.C. Burr was born on January 30, 1891 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Western Limited (1932), Special Agent K-7 (1936) and Kentucky Blue Streak (1935). He was married to Clemence Amy. He died on June 4, 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Executive Committee
12. Warren Doane
Producer | Demi-Tasse
Warren Doane was born on October 30, 1890 in Valley City, North Dakota, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Demi-Tasse (1934), Mister Mugg (1933) and Tid-Bits (1934). He was married to Aileen Duncan. He died on May 12, 1964 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
Executive Committe
13. Joseph P. Kennedy
Patriarch of a famous political family, Kennedy had a brief Hollywood career: He was one of the first financiers to play a leading role in the movie industry. Although he grew up in modest East Boston, where his father was a barkeeper and politician, Kennedy was educated with the Establishment's ...
Executive Committee
14. Rod La Rocque
Actor | The Locked Door
Rod La Rocque was born Roderick Ross LaRocque on November 29, 1898 in Chicago to a French father and an Irish mother. Stage-struck in his early teen years, he spent his summers with local stock companies, playing juvenile roles for $1.00 per performance. By the time he was 16, while he was ...
Executive Committee
15. Pat Powers
Producer | For the Good of All
Pat Powers was born on October 8, 1869 in Waterford, Ireland as Patrick A. Powers. He is known for his work on The Galloping Cowboy (1926), For the Good of All (1912) and A Frozen Ape (1910). He worked on Steamboat Willie (1928), starring Mickey Mouse as the lead role. He died on July 30, 1948 in ...
Executive Committee
16. Winfield R. Sheehan
Producer | Marie Galante
Winfield R. Sheehan was born on September 24, 1883 in Buffalo, New York, USA. Winfield R. was a producer and writer, known for Marie Galante (1934), Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) and Now I'll Tell (1934). Winfield R. was married to Maria Jeritza and Kay Laurel. Winfield R. died on July 25, 1945 in ...
Executive Committee
17. James Leo Meehan
Director | The Magic Garden
James Leo Meehan was born on July 22, 1891 in Illinois, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Magic Garden (1927), Michael O'Halloran (1923) and Laddie (1926). He died on November 8, 1943 in San Francisco, California, USA.
Advisory Board, Chairman
18. Ruth Clifford
Actress | The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
American actress, originally of leading roles, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. A native of Rhode Island, she attended St. Mary's Seminary in Narragansett, Rhode Island, then, following her mother's death in 1911, came to Los Angeles as a teenager to live with her ...
Advisory Board
19. Bebe Daniels
Actress | 42nd Street
Bebe Daniels already had toured as an actor by the age of four in a stage production of "Richard III". She had her first leading role at the age of seven and started her film career shortly after this in movies for Imperial, Pathe and others. At 14 she was already a film veteran, and was enlisted ...
Advisory Board
20. John Harron
Actor | White Zombie
Actor John (Johnnie) Harron was born in New York City on March 31, 1903, a younger brother of silent screen star Robert Harron. John got his first taste of the movie business with an unbilled bit in one of his brother's many classic films, Hearts of the World (1918). After all the tabloid hoopla of...
Advisory Board
21. Robert F. McGowan
Writer | Sons of the Legion
Robert F. McGowan started life in Denver, CO, intent on becoming the next Thomas A. Edison, but when inventing failed to bring fortune and/or fame, he became a fireman. He worked for the Denver Fire Department until he suffered a serious on-the-job injury at age 30 that nearly cost him a leg. ...
Advisory Board
22. Thomas Meighan
Actor | The Racket
This once popular silent screen star and older matinee idol for Paramount Studios is all but forgotten today; however, Thomas "Tommy" Meighan was one of the rulers of the Hollywood roost, between the years 1915 and 1928.
He was born in Pittsburgh, his father a president of a major manufacturing ...
Advisory Board
23. Antonio Moreno
Actor | Creature from the Black Lagoon
A serious rival to Rudolph Valentino as the suave, smouldering 'Latin Lover' type was black-haired Spanish-born Antonio Moreno. One of the most prominent screen stars of the 1920s, he was equally adept at romance, melodrama or comedy and appeared opposite most of the legendary movie queens of the ...
Advisory Board
24. Dorothy Phillips
Actress | Broadway Love
A former stage actress, Dorothy Phillips was married to actor/director/producer Allen Holubar. They were known as two of the screen's most prominent players--her the star, he the director/producer. Dorothy was well known in Hollywood as one of the most warm-hearted, approachable stars in the ...
Advisory Board
25. Sam Taylor
Writer | Safety Last!
New York-born writer and director with a penchant for comedy. He graduated from Fordham University, and, from 1916, worked at Kalem on the 'Ham and Bud' series (Lloyd Hamilton & Bud Duncan). When Kalem was taken over by Vitagraph, Taylor became feature continuity writer. Sometime after 1920, he ...
Advisory Board
26. Walter Wills
Actor | Songs and Saddles
Walter Wills was born on August 22, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Songs and Saddles (1938), Borderland (1922) and Danger Flight (1939). He died on January 18, 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Entertainment Committee, Chairman
27. Trixie Friganza
Actress | Free and Easy
Trixie Friganza was born on November 29, 1870 in Grenola, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Free and Easy (1930), If I Had My Way (1940) and Silks and Saddles (1936). She was married to Charles A. Goettler and William J.M. Barry. She died on February 27, 1955 in Flintridge, California, USA.
Entertainment Committee
28. Natalie Kingston
Actress | Tarzan the Tiger
She traced her lineage back to the first Spanish governor of California. Her great-grandfather on her mother's side was Hungarian-born Agoston Haraszthy, dubbed the father of Californian viticulture. Leggy, olive-complexioned Natalia Ringstrom grew up and was educated in the San Francisco Bay area....
Entertainment Committee
29. Andy Clark
Actor | Hit the Deck
Andy Clark was born on March 12, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Hit the Deck (1929), The Shamrock Handicap (1926) and The Great Bradley Mystery (1917). He died on November 16, 1960 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
Entertainment Committee
30. Leo McCarey
Director | An Affair to Remember
Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and Love Affair (1939). He was married to Virginia Stella Martin. He died on July 5, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Entertainment Committee
31. Eddie Quillan
Actor | Mutiny on the Bounty
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 31, 1907, Eddie Quillan was seven years old and already performing in vaudeville with his sister and three brothers in an act called "The Rising Generation." His parents, Joseph Quillan and Sarah Quillan, were well-known performers with Joseph himself ...
Entertainment Committee
32. Bert Ennis
Writer | Inside Information
His parents were Richard J.and and Emma Ennis of Brooklyn. Three of his grandparents were Irish immigrants. Bert had two brothers, neither of whom, like Bert, used the original forms of their names: Frank Leslie, known as Leslie or F. Leslie, a banker, and Richard, known as Harry, whom Bert ...
Publicity Committee
33. Mary H. O'Connor
Writer | The Lure of the Mask
Mary H. O'Connor was born on September 1, 1872 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for The Lure of the Mask (1915), Souls Triumphant (1917) and A Yankee from the West (1915). She died on September 3, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Publicity Committee
34. Frank Dolan
Actor | Too Much Turkey
Frank Dolan was born on March 14, 1894 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Too Much Turkey (1915), Hard Cider (1914) and The Night That Sophie Graduated (1915). He died on October 12, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Membership Committee, Chairman
35. Margaret Fielding
Actress | If Winter Comes
Margaret Fielding was born on June 22, 1895 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for If Winter Comes (1923), The Isle of Lost Ships (1929) and The Exiles (1923). She died on November 25, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Membership Committee
36. Carmelita Geraghty
Actress | The Pleasure Garden
The daughter of screenwriter Tom Geraghty and sister of writers Maurice Geraghty and Gerald Geraghty, Carmelita Geraghty was a graduate of Hollywood High School, where she was in charge of the school calendar. Voted a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924, she spent most of her career as a leading lady, playing ...
Membership Committee
37. Molly O'Day
Actress | The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Molly O'Day was born on October 16, 1911 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928), The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and Bars of Hate (1935). She was married to James Kenaston and Jack Durant. She died on October 22, 1998 in Avila Beach, ...
Membership Committee
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