Joseph Henabery
Joseph Henabery (January 15, 1888 – February 18, 1976) Omaha, Nebraska, was a US film actor, screenplay writer, and director.
Career
Henabery's acting career began in The Joke on Yellentown (1914). Henabery appeared in the D. W. Griffith silent film Birth of a Nation (1915) as Abraham Lincoln. From 1914 to 1917 he appeared in seventeen films.
Henabery also worked as a second-unit director on Griffith's Intolerance (1916), and supervised the filming of at least one extended sequence that appeared in the film. Throughout the rest of his career, he worked as a director. From the mid-1920s, and after professional disagreements with both Louis B. Mayer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures, Henabery found employment as a director for smaller Hollywood studios. His career as a director of feature films ended by the late 1930s.
As Abraham Lincoln
Although Henabery's impersonation of Lincoln was a masterpiece of facial makeup, the 6'1" (185 cm) Henabery was three inches shorter than the 6'4" (193 cm) Lincoln.[1] Kevin Brownlow's book The Parade's Gone By (1968) contains a photo of Henabery in costume and makeup as Lincoln, seated in a chair with planks placed on the floor under Henabery's feet so that his knees are raised several inches; this effect (with the planks kept off-camera in the movie) made Henabery's legs appear longer than they actually were.
Death
Henabery died on February 18, 1976, aged 88, in Los Angeles, California. [2]
Filmography
Director
Title | Year | Notes |
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Say! Young Fellow | 1918 | director and scenarist |
Mr. Fix-It | 1918 | co-screenplay |
Life of the Party | 1920 | |
Brewster's Millions | 1921 | |
Travelling Salesman | 1921 | |
The Stranger | 1924 | |
A Sainted Devil | 1924 | |
Cobra | 1925 | |
Meet the Prince | 1926 | |
Play Safe | 1927 | |
Sailors' Wives | 1928 | |
Red Hot Speed | 1929 | |
The Quitter | 1929 | |
Double or Nothing | 1936 | Short |
Actor
Title | Year | Role | Notes |
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The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | Abraham Lincoln | |
The Spell of the Poppy | 1915 | John Hale | |
The Penitentes | 1915 | Minor Role | Uncredited |
Intolerance | 1916 | L'amiral de Coligny / Defendant | (final film role) |
References
External links
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