Wallace McCutcheon Jr.

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Wallace McCutcheon Jr. (1919)
Wallace McCutcheon Jr. with dance partner Joan Sawyer in the dance educational film Motion Picture Dancing Lessons , October 1913

Wallace "Wally" McCutcheon Jr. (born December 23, 1880 in New York City ; died January 27, 1928 in Hollywood , Los Angeles ) was an American film director and actor of the silent film era .

Early career

Wallace McCutcheon Jr. was the oldest of eight children of the American film pioneer Wallace "Old Man" McCutcheon . He began his career as a stage actor and appeared in several Broadway productions as an actor from 1903 . His engagements never lasted long. From his father, who was a director at the Biograph Company from 1897 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908 , he occasionally received small roles in his films. When the father fell ill in the spring of 1908, McCutcheon Jr. jumped. for him as a director. However, he only did this for a few weeks, he was overwhelmed by the task and his few films were correspondingly bad. The screenwriter and actress Gene Gauntier remembered "Wally" as someone who did not take his job seriously and was more interested in boxing matches and young Broadway performers. He repeatedly asked Gauntier for script changes to include small roles for his favorites.

David W. Griffith , who was initially engaged as a screenwriter and actor, took over the task after a few weeks , and Griffith directed the short film The Black Viper once together with McCutcheon. In the following years McCutcheon no longer appears in the cast lists of the film industry, but he has appeared again irregularly on Broadway. In October 1913, the three-part dance educational film Motion Picture Dancing Lessons produced by the Kalem Company was released . McCutcheon and his partner, Broadway dancer Joan Sawyer, introduce step by step into tango , the Turkey Trot and the Viennese Hesitation Waltz , a variant of the Viennese waltz developed by Vernon and Irene Castle . A review of the film and the ad suggests that the dance couple Sawyer and McCutcheon performed at the Ziegfeld Follies over the summer , giving dance classes for members of the upper class at $ 25 an hour.

First World War

In August 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , McCutcheon traveled to Great Britain and joined an armored car unit of the British Army as a war volunteer . Two months later he was sent to France as Mechanician 1st Class . In December 1914, he came with the rank of Second Lieutenant for Leicestershire Regiment . This was quickly followed by further promotions, in February 1915 to First Lieutenant , in August to Captain and in April 1916 to Major . McCutcheon was wounded three times, with a bayonet , a shot and a shrapnel. Due to a serious head injury, he was discharged from military service and returned home with a metal plate in his skull. In September 1917, McCutcheon was back in the United States . There he was employed as an actor in the two performances of the National Red Cross Pageant . It is unclear whether he also took part in the lost film of the same name, directed by Christy Cabanne . Even after the war, McCutcheon continued to be referred to as "major" on cast lists and in advertising for his films.

Marriage to Pearl White

The writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (center) visits Pearl White (right) on her farm, and to the right of Ibáñez is Wallace McCutcheon

Between 1917 and 1919, the literature is inconsistent, McCutcheon married the actress Pearl White , a star of the war years adventure film known as the "Heroine of a Thousand Stunts" . In 1919 they appeared together in the 15-part serial The Black Secret and in 1920 in The Thief . The marriage was divorced in July 1921.

death

During the 1920s, McCutcheon was mostly unemployed and suffered from alcoholism and depression . In January 1928 he shot himself in a hotel room in Los Angeles . In the body, the police investigators found two cents, some newspaper clippings with reports of Pearl White's activities abroad and on a chair a handwritten note with the request Have a drink (German: Take a sip ) under a half-full bottle of gin .

Filmography

  • 1908: Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (actor)
  • 1908: At the French Ball (Director)
  • 1908: At the Crossroads of Life (Director)
  • 1908: The Kentuckian (actor)
  • 1908: The Fight for Freedom (actor)
  • 1908: The Black Viper (co-director of David W. Griffith)
  • 1913: Motion Picture Dancing Lessons (actor, dance educational film with Joan Sawyer)
  • 1918: The Floor Below (Actor)
  • 1919: The Black Secret (serial with 15 episodes, actors)
  • 1919: A Virtuous Vamp (Actor)
  • 1920: The Phantom Foe (Actor)
  • 1920: The Thief (Actor)

Theater roles (Broadway)

  • Are You My Father? , based on the drama Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat (supporting role in 11 performances from October 8, 1903)
  • The Dictator , comedy by Richard Harding Davis (role of Corporal Manuel in 89 performances, April 4, 1904 - May 30, 1904 and August 24, 1904 - September 1904)
  • A Fool and His Money , George Broadhurst comedy (cameo in 24 performances, October 26, 1904 - November 1904)
  • On the Quiet , comedy by Augustus Thomas (supporting role in 16 performances from 11 December 1905)
  • The Ranger , comedy by Augustus Thomas (supporting role in 24 performances from September 2, 1907)
  • Staff , drama by Eugene W. Presbrey (supporting role in 38 performances from September 3, 1907 - October 1907)
  • The Easterner , melodrama by George Broadhurst (supporting role in 16 performances from March 2, 1908)
  • The Girls of Gottenberg , musical comedy by Charles Frohman (role of Dragoon Captain Albrecht, 103 performances, September 2, 1908 - November 28, 1908)
  • The Slim Princess , musical comedy by Henry Blossom and Leslie Stuart based on an artwork by George Ade (role of Alex Pike, 104 performances, January 2, 1911 - April 1, 1911)
  • The Red Rose , musical comedy by Robert Hood Bowers , Harry B. Smith and Robert B. Smith (role of Dick Lorimer, 84 performances, June 22, 1911 - September 1911)
  • Eva , musical by Glen MacDonough based on the operetta Eva by Franz Lehár (role of Antoine, 24 performances, December 30, 1912 - January 18, 1913)
  • Her Little Highness , musical by Reginald De Koven , Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf based on a comedy by Pollock (role of Robert Trainor, 16 performances, October 13, 1913 - October 25, 1913)
  • The Dancing Duchess , musical comedy by Milton Lusk, CV Kerr and RH Burnside (choreography, 13 performances, August 19, 1914 - August 29, 1914)
  • The Rat , musical by Ivor Novello and Constance Collier based on their drama of the same title (role of Paul, 126 performances, February 10, 1925 - May 1925)
  • Earl Carroll's Vanities , music revue by Earl Carroll (supporting role in 199 performances, July 6, 1925 - December 27, 1925)

Web links

Commons : Wallace McCutcheon, Jr.  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wallace McCutcheon Jr. in the All Movie Guide , accessed on January 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Dancing Lessons Pictured . In: The Moving Pictures World October 18, 1913, Volume 18, No. 3, p. 248 and p. 331, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovingpicturewor18newy~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D252~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  3. ^ A b Wallace McCutcheon, Three Year War Veteran, Carries Important Part in "The Black Secret" . In: The Moving Pictures World September 20, 1919, Volume 41, No. 12, p. 1815, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovingpicturewor41chal_0~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D523~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  4. ^ Cabanne to Stage Red Cross Pageant . In: The Moving Pictures World September 22, 1917, Volume 33, No. 12, pp. 1822-1823, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovpict33chal_0~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D660~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  5. ^ A b David K. Frasier: Suicide in the Entertainment Industry. An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases . McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina and London 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2333-1 , p. 204.
  6. ↑ Marina Dahlquist: Pearl White . In: Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal and Monica Dall'Asta (eds.): Women Film Pioneers Project . Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 2013, September 27, 2013, accessed January 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ Fritz Tidden: Keeping in Touch personnel . In: The Moving Pictures World July 23, 1921, Volume 51, No. 4, pp. 429-431, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovingpicturewor51july~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D471~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  8. ↑ Fritz Tidden: Keeping in Touch personnel . In: The Moving Pictures World August 6, 1921, volume 51, p. 612, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovpicwor512movi~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D66~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  9. ↑ Over the Hill to the Poorhouse in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ At the French Ball in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2019.
  11. ↑ At the Crossroads of Life in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2019.
  12. ^ The Kentuckian in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ The Fight for Freedom in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2019.
  14. ↑ The Black Viper in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2019.
  15. ^ Edward Weitzel: The Floor Below . In: The Moving Pictures World March 23, 1918, Volume 35, No. 12, P. 1703, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovingpicturewor35newy~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D1811~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  16. ↑ Ken Wlaschin: Silent Mystery and Detective Movies. A Comprehensive Filmography . McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina and London 2009, ISBN 978-0-7864-4350-5 , pp. 30-31.
  17. ↑ Schenck Engages McCutcheon . In: The Moving Pictures World 23 August 1919, Volume 41, No. 8, p. 1112, digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovingpicturewor41chal~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D640~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D (under the provisional title The Bachelor ).
  18. ↑ The Phantom Foe in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 3, 2019.
  19. ↑ Robert C. McElravy: The Thief . In: The Moving Pictures World December 11, 1920, Volume 47, No. 6, p. 767, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dmovingpicturewor47dec~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D265~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  20. ^ Wallace McCutcheon , Internet Broadway Database website , accessed January 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME McCutcheon, Wallace Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCutcheon, Wally (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1928
Place of death Hollywood , Los Angeles