Eighty Silent Film Stars
Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known
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About the Book
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.
A comprehensive filmography (compiled for this book by Richard E. Braff and listing year, studio, director, screenplay, story or author, length and cast) accompanies each entry. The biographies are revised and edited versions of a series that ran in the film periodical Classic Images.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
George A. Katchmer
Format: softcover (6 x 9 in 2 vols.)
Pages: 1084
Bibliographic Info: 88 photos, notes, index
Copyright Date: 2012 [1991]
pISBN: 978-0-7864-6764-8
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword by Samuel K. Rubin xi
Introduction xiii
Notes on the Filmographies xv
1. Art Acord 1
2. George Bancroft 8
3. Richard Barthelmess 15
4. Warner Baxter 24
5. Noah Beery, Sr. 34
6. Wallace Beery 49
7. Monte Blue 67
8. Joe Bonomo 86
9. Hobart Bosworth 91
10. William Boyd 109
11. Harry Carey 122
12. Edmund Cobb 139
13. Jim Corey, Fred Kohler and Bob Kortman 163
14. Ricardo Cortez 192
15. Donald Crisp 203
16. Reginald Denny 220
17. William Desmond 234
18. Richard Dix 246
19. William Duncan 256
20. Dustin Farnum 265
21. Franklyn Farnum 270
22. William Farnum 280
23. Lefty Flynn 289
24. Francis Ford 293
25. Robert Frazer 315
26. Hoot Gibson 327
27. Alan Hale 340
28. Kenneth Harlan 357
29. Neal Hart 369
30. Raymond Hatton 375
31. Jean Hersholt 398
32. Johnny Hines 412
33. Jack Hoxie 419
34. J. Warren Kerrigan 430
35. Norman Kerry 441
36. Rod La Rocque 448
37. George Larkin 459
38. Montagu Love 468
39. Francis McDonald 487
40. J. Farrell MacDonald 504
41. Wallace MacDonald 526
Volume 2
42. Nelson McDowell, Slim Summerville, and Ernest Torrence 536
43. J. P. McGowan 564
44. Victor McLaglen 580
45. Tully Marshall 595
46. Ken Maynard 613
47. Frank Mayo 625
48. Thomas Meighan 637
49. Walter Miller 650
50. Ruth Mix 662
51. Antonio Moreno 667
52. Pete Morrison 680
53. Jack Mulhall 692
54. Conrad Nagel 713
55. Warner Oland 728
56. Eugene Pallette 742
57. Jack Perrin 763
58. House Peters 782
59. Eddie Polo 791
60. Herbert Rawlinson 800
61. Ruth Roland 822
62. Albert Roscoe 833
63. William Russell 843
64. Tom Santschi 854
65. Milton Sills 870
66. Russell Simpson 881
67. Lewis Stone 900
68. Richard Talmadge 916
69. Conway Tearle 925
70. Fred Thomson 938
71. Ben Turpin 946
72. Tom Tyler 961
73. George Walsh 976
74. H. B. Warner 985
75. Bryant Washburn 1001
76. Guinn “Big Boy” Williams 1021
Index 1037
Book Reviews & Awards
“anyone with an interest in silent films will…find quite a few favorites…recommended”—Classic Images; “filmographies…are quite impressive”—Library Journal; “lively, carefully researched…belongs in all serious film collections…extensive filmography…excellent reference source…fills a real gap”—Choice; “a much-needed reference”—Film Quarterly; “reliable information…recalls a vanished world…biographies are generally interesting”—ARBA; “this book is a labor of love…anyone with an interest in silent films, especially the Western certainly needs to have a copy of this book in their movie library”—Wrangler’s Roost; “thoroughly researched”—Western Clippings; “substantial biographies and full filmographies”—American Cinematographer; “wonderful…80 excellent short biographies…a welcome addition”—Silents Are Golden; “a thorough background of the silent genre…fascinating…has the detail of an encyclopedia, but the prose of a great biography times 80!”—The Silents Majority; “weighty tome…a goldmine of data”—The Silent Film Monthly; “immensely detailed and extensive”—Film Monthly.
