Frank Campeau

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Frank Campeau (1920), photo from the Exhibitors Herald

Frank Campeau (born December 14, 1864 in Detroit , Michigan , † November 5, 1943 in Woodland Hills , California ) was an American film and stage actor.

life and career

Frank Campeau began his career in the theater. Between 1904 and 1916 he starred in four plays on Broadway , including Believe Me, Xantippe from 1913 alongside John Barrymore . After Campeau had already made his film debut in the short film Kit Carson's Wooing in 1911 , he focused mainly on his film career from the mid-1910s. During the silent film era, he was best known for supporting roles in the films of the silent film star Douglas Fairbanks senior , with whom he played in 15 films between 1916 and 1921. He mainly embodied villain roles, often hypocritical or greasy in nature. Campeau also took on roles in three silent films by John Ford , including Three Rough Fellows from 1926, in which Campeau played a horse thief who is purified and then killed in the course of the film.

After the sound film era began in the late 1920s, Campeau's roles became increasingly smaller. He played General Sheridan in David Wark Griffith's version of Abraham Lincoln (1930) and had a small supporting role as a lemonade seller in the lavish Marie-Antoinette costume film with Norma Shearer . After around 95 films, he ended his film career in 1940. Frank Campeau was married to Lillian Stratton Corbin (1882–1928), but the marriage ended in divorce after a few years. He died in November 1943 at the age of 78. Frank Campeu is buried in the Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood .

Filmography (selection)

Campeau (right) in the Broadway play Believe Me, Xantippe alongside Mary Young and John Barrymore (1913)
  • 1911: Kit Carson's Wooing
  • 1916: The Wood Nymph
  • 1916 intolerance (Intolerance)
  • 1919: His Majesty, the American
  • 1921: The Kid
  • 1922: The Trap
  • 1923: The Isle of Lost Ships
  • 1923: Hoodman Blind
  • 1926: The Gold Prospector 's Testament (No Man's Gold)
  • 1926: Three rough journeymen (3 Bad Man)
  • 1927: The First Auto
  • 1929: The Gamblers
  • 1929: Say It With Songs
  • 1930: The Last of the Duanes
  • 1930: Abraham Lincoln
  • 1931: Fighting Caravans
  • 1935: Gold Fever in Alaska (The Call of the Wild)
  • 1935: The Robin Hood of El Dorado
  • 1937: Tarantella (The Firefly)
  • 1938: Marie-Antoinette

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Campeau | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lillian Stratton Corbin at Find A Grave
personal data
SURNAME Campeau, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1943
Place of death Woodland Hills , California