Morgan Wallace

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Morgan Wallace (born July 26, 1881 in Lompoc , California , † December 12, 1953 in Tarzana , California) was an American actor.

Life

Born in California, Morgan Wallace first appeared on Broadway in 1904 in Romeo and Juliet . He made his film debut in 1914 in the film Gentlemen of Nerve from the studios of David Wark Griffith , in the same year he also played alongside Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance . He also tried his hand at directing the short film Caught in a Flue in 1914, but it was to remain his only directorial work. In the following years he made more films at irregular intervals, for example, under Griffith's direction, he was seen as the villainous marquis in Two Orphans in a Storm from 1921. In the 1920s, Wallace appeared in ten plays on Broadway, including The Tavern and Women Go On Forever . With the start of talkies in the late 1920s, he concentrated mainly on his film career, where he often played strict and authoritarian minor characters.

Morgan Wallace made around 125 films in total. His roles included the gloomy executioner in the pre-code drama Safe in Hell (1931), a chauffeur in the Oscar-winning star - studded film People in the Hotel (1932), and a client of WC Fields in the comedy Das ist vorschlag (1934), who energetically Kumquats required. He also had a supporting role in Fritz Lang's first American film, Blinde Wut . In 1946 he retired from the acting business after the film The Falcon's Alibi and the Broadway play Loco . The actor, who was married to Louise Chapman Wallace, died in 1953 at the age of 72. He was the third member of the Screen Actors Guild when it was founded in 1933.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morgan Wallace | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved September 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Morgan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lompoc , California
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1953
Place of death Tarzana , California