Eighty Silent Film Stars : Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known

by Katchmer, George A.

• ISBN13: 9780786467648
• ISBN10: 0786467649
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-30
• Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc Pub

Summary

Eighty good-sized biographies of significant silent-era players hard to find in other reference works, and almost nowhere at this length. The villains and sidekicks of two-reelers (Jim Corey, Nelson McDowell), cowboy action stars (Jack Hoxie, Art Acord, Hoot Gibson, et al.), comedians, character actors, matinee idols and other talented and reliable performers.

Table of Contents

Volume	p. 1
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Notes on the Filmographies	p. xv
Art Acord	p. 1
George Bancroft	p. 8
Richard Barthelmess	p. 15
Warner Baxter	p. 24
Noah Beery, Sr.	p. 34
Wallace Beery	p. 49
Monte Blue	p. 67
Joe Bonomo	p. 86
Hobart Bosworth	p. 91
William Boyd	p. 109
Harry Carey	p. 122
Edmund Cobb	p. 139
Jim Corey, Fred Kohler and Bob Kortman	p. 163
Ricardo Cortez	p. 192
Donald Crisp	p. 203
Reginald Denny	p. 220
William Desmond	p. 234
Richard Dix	p. 246
William Duncan	p. 256
Dustin Farnum	p. 265
Franklyn Farnum	p. 270
William Farnum	p. 280
Lefty Flynn	p. 289
Francis Ford	p. 293
Robert Frazer	p. 315
Hoot Gibson	p. 327
Alan Hale	p. 340
Kenneth Harlan	p. 357
Neal Hart	p. 369
Raymond Hatton	p. 375
Jean Hersholt	p. 398
Johnny Hines	p. 412
Jack Hoxie	p. 419
J. Warren Kerrigan	p. 430
Norman Kerry	p. 441
Rod La Rocque	p. 448
George Larkin	p. 459
Montagu Love	p. 468
Francis McDonald	p. 487
J. Farrell MacDonald	p. 504
Wallace MacDonald	p. 526
Volume	p. 2
Nelson McDowell, Slim Summerville, and Ernest Torrence	p. 536
J. P. McGowan	p. 564
Victor McLaglen	p. 580
Tully Marshall	p. 595
Ken Maynard	p. 613
Frank Mayo	p. 625
Thomas Meighan	p. 637
Walter Miller	p. 650
Ruth Mix	p. 662
Antonio Moreno	p. 667
Pete Morrison	p. 680
Jack Mulhall	p. 692
Conrad Nagel	p. 713
Warner Oland	p. 728
Eugene Pallette	p. 742
Jack Perrin	p. 763
House Peters	p. 782
Eddie Polo	p. 791
Herbert Rawlinson	p. 800
Ruth Roland	p. 822
Albert Roscoe	p. 833
William Russell	p. 843
Tom Santschi	p. 854
Milton Sills	p. 870
Russell Simpson	p. 881
Lewis Stone	p. 900
Richard Talmadge	p. 916
Conway Tearle	p. 925
Fred Thomson	p. 938
Ben Turpin	p. 946
Tom Tyler	p. 961
George Walsh	p. 976
H. B. Warner	p. 985
Bryant Washburn	p. 1001
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams	p. 1021
Index	p. 1037
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