Henry Bergman

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Henry Bergman (1917)

Henry Bergman (born February 23, 1868 in San Francisco , California or Sweden , † October 22, 1946 in Hollywood , California) was an American actor and assistant director , who was best known for his longstanding collaboration with Charlie Chaplin .

Life

Henry Bergman was of Swedish descent. Most sources state that he was born in San Francisco , but there are also reports that he came to the United States as a teenager. He began his acting career as a stage actor in the 1880s and worked, among other things, at the opera and the circus. Bergman made his debut on Broadway in 1899. In total, he played there until December 1932 in around two dozen plays, mostly musicals and comedies. In his film career, too, he was to play almost exclusively in comedies. In total, Bergman worked as an actor in 59 films between 1914 and 1936.

The corpulent Bergman made his first film in 1914 when he was 46 years old. In the early years of his film career, he made regular turns with comedian Billie Ritchie. In 1916 he played for the first time with Charlie Chaplin in the film The Store Overseer , which began a long and fruitful collaboration between the two. Bergman played almost exclusively for Chaplin for the rest of his career. Because of his versatility, he often played several characters in a Chaplin film and was even used several times as a woman, including in The Roller Skating Rink . He played, among other things, the host of a poor shelter in The Vagabond and the child who takes the child from Chaplin to collect a reward from the police. One of his best-known roles was that of mayor in the opening sequence of City Lights (1931).

In City Lights and Modern Times , Bergman served as an assistant director to Chaplin in addition to his work as an actor. He was a production assistant for The Great Dictator from 1940. Bergman's last role as an actor was as a restaurant owner in Modern Times , who gives the Tramp and his girlfriend ( Paulette Goddard ) work in his restaurant. At the time, Bergman was the owner of Henry's restaurant in Hollywood , which was popular with Hollywood celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. The restaurant was co-financed by Charlie Chaplin, with whom he was also friends in private life.

Henry Bergman died of a heart attack in 1946 at the age of 78. He is buried in the Hillside Memorial Park Jewish Cemetery in Culver City .

Filmography

  • 1914: A Change of Complexion
  • 1914: Partners in Crime
  • 1914: The Fatal Marriage
  • 1914: The Baron's Bear Escape
  • 1915: Thou Shalt Not Flirt
  • 1915: The Butcher's Bride
  • 1915: Almost a Scandal
  • 1915: The Avenging Dentist
  • 1915: Kreutzer Sonata
  • 1915: Bill's New Pal
  • 1915: Hearts and Flames
  • 1915: Poor Policy
  • 1915: Father Was Neutral
  • 1915: Love and Sour Notes
  • 1915: The Melting Pot
  • 1915: Bill's Blighted Career
  • 1915: The Curse of Work
  • 1915: A Doomed Hero
  • 1915: The Right of Way
  • 1915: The Curse of a Name
  • 1915: Life and Moving Pictures
  • 1915: Destiny: Or, The Soul of a Woman
  • 1915: Vendetta in a Hospital
  • 1915: Silk Hose and High Pressure
  • 1915: An Enemy to Society
  • 1915: Avenged by a Fish
  • 1915: Married on Credit
  • 1915: Room and Board: A Dollar and a Half
  • 1915: One Million Dollars
  • 1915: The Baron's Bear Trap
  • 1916: Between Midnight
  • 1916: The Floor Walker
  • 1916: The Tramp (The Vegabond)
  • 1916: The Count (The Count)
  • 1916: The Pawn Shop (The Pawnshop)
  • 1916: Behind the Screen
  • 1916: The Rink
  • 1917: Easy Street (Easy Street)
  • 1917: The Black Stork
  • 1917: The Cure (The Cure)
  • 1917: The Immigrant (The Immigrant)
  • 1917: The Adventurer (The Adventurer)
  • 1918: How To Make Movies
  • 1918: A Dog's Life (A Dog's Life)
  • 1918: The bond (The Bond)
  • 1918: One Hundred Percent American
  • 1918: rifle over (shoulder arms)
  • 1919: On the sunny side (Sunnyside)
  • 1919: The Professor
  • 1919: Hilarious hours (A Day's Pleasure)
  • 1921: The Fine People (The Idle Class)
  • 1921: The Vagabond and the Child (The Kid)
  • 1922: Payday (Pay Day)
  • 1923: The Pilgrim (The Pilgrim)
  • 1923: The A Woman (A Woman of Paris)
  • 1925: Gold Rush (The Gold Rush)
  • 1928: The Circus (The Circus)
  • 1931: City Lights (City Lights) and Assistant Director
  • 1936: Modern Times (Modern Times) also assistant direction
  • 1940: The Great Dictator (The Great Dictator) only production assistant

Web links

Commons : Henry Bergman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Bergman in the New York Times
  2. ^ Henry Bergman in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bergman, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and assistant director
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California or Sweden
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1946
Place of death Hollywood , California