Frank Currier
Frank Currier | |
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Currier in 1921 | |
Born |
Norwich, Connecticut, U.S. | September 4, 1857
Died |
April 22, 1928 70) Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged
Occupation | Film and stage actor, director |
Years active | 1912-1928 |
Spouse(s) | Ada Dow (?-1926) (her death) |
Frank Currier (September 4, 1857 – April 22, 1928) was an American film and stage actor and director of the silent era.[1]
Career
Similar to Theodore Roberts, Kate Lester, Ida Waterman, and William H. Crane, Currier had a long and successful stage career in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. His youth was spent honing his stagecraft. By the time he started appearing in silent films he was in his 50s and middle-aged. Currier, like Roberts, had a distinctive grandfatherly look as he aged and was respected and beloved by film audiences.
Currier appeared in 133 films between 1912 and 1928. He also directed 19 films in 1916. He is memorable in the 1925 film Ben-Hur as the Roman Admiral who adopts Judah Ben-Hur (Ramon Novarro) as his son after Ben-Hur saves his life during a battle at sea.
He was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1857 and died in Hollywood, California in 1928.
Selected filmography
- The Cross-Roads (1912)
- The Battle of Frenchman's Run (1915)
- Fifty-Fifty (1916)
- Panthea (1917)
- The End of the Tour (1917)
- His Father's Son (1917)
- God's Law and Man's (1917)
- Sowers and Reapers (1917)
- The Greatest Power (1917)
- Outwitted (1917)
- Sylvia on a Spree (1917)
- The Trail of the Shadow (1917)
- The Duchess of Doubt (1917)
- The Brass Check (1918)
- The Winning of Beatrice (1918)
- To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918)
- A Successful Adventure (1918)
- His Bonded Wife (1918)
- With Neatness and Dispatch (1918)
- Opportunity (1918)
- Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919)
- The Great Romance (1919)
- Almost Married (1919)
- It Pays to Advertise (1919)
- Satan Junior (1919)
- The Great Victory (1919)
- Blind Man's Eyes (1919)
- Easy to Make Money (1919)
- The Right of Way (1920)
- The Cheater (1920)
- Clothes (1920)
- The Pleasure Seekers (1920)
- The Rookie's Return (1920)
- The Misleading Lady (1920)
- The Man Who (1921)
- A Message from Mars (1921)
- Reckless Youth(1922)
- The Sea Hawk (1924)
- Being Respectable (1924)
- The Trouble Shooter (1924)
- The Heart Buster (1924)
- The Red Lily (1924)
- The Family Secret (1924)
- Graustark (1925)
- The White Desert (1925)
- The Great Love (1925)
- Ben-Hur (1925)
- The Big Parade (1925)
- La Bohème (1926)
- The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
- Tell It to the Marines (1926)
- The Enemy (1927)
- The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
- Across to Singapore (1928)
References
- ↑ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (September 4, 2018). "Silent Film Necrology". McFarland. Retrieved September 4, 2018 – via Google Books.
External links
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