George Fawcett
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George Fawcett | |
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 Fawcett in the play The Great John Ganton, 1909 | |
| Born | August 25, 1860 Alexandria, Virginia, USA |
| Died | June 6, 1939 (aged 78) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1915–1933 |
| Spouse | Percy Haswell (1895–1939 his death) (1 daughter) |
George Fawcett (August 25, 1860 – June 6, 1939) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era.
Biography
Born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1860, Fawcett graduated from the University of Virginia.[1]
Fawcett had his own acting troupe, the Fawcett Stock Company.[2] He appeared on stage in such plays as Ghosts (1905) with Mary Shaw, The Squaw Man (1905) with William Faversham, The Great John Ganton (1909) with an up-and-coming actress Laurette Taylor in the cast, and Getting a Polish (1910) with actress May Irwin. He appeared in 151 films between 1915 and 1933.
Fawcett married actress Percy Haswell. Fawcett and Haswell had one daughter. He died in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1939.
Partial filmography
- The Habit of Happiness (1916)
- The Crisis (1916)
- Panthea (1917)
- Shirley Kaye (1917)
- The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
- The Great Love (1918)
- The Beloved Traitor (1918)
- The Talk of the Town (1918)
- Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918)
- The Hope Chest (1918)
- A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
- I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
- True Heart Susie (1919)
- The Greatest Question (1919)
- Babs (1920)
- Dangerous Business (1920)
- Good References (1920)
- Two Weeks (1920)
- Paying the Piper (1921)
- Sentimental Tommy (1921)
- Chivalrous Charley (1921)
- Little Italy (1921)
- Such a Little Queen (1921) (*director only)
- Forever (1921)
- Hush Money (1921)
- The Way of a Maid (1921)
- Polly of the Follies (1922)
- Ebb Tide (1922)
- Beyond the Rainbow (1922)
- Silas Marner (1922)
- John Smith (1922)
- Manslaughter (1922)
- Java Head (1923)
- The Woman With Four Faces (1923)
- His Children's Children (1923)
- West of the Water Tower (1923)
- Just Like a Woman (1923)
- Pied Piper Malone (1924)
- Triumph (1924)
- The Bedroom Window (1924)
- A Lost Lady (1924)
- In Every Woman's Life (1924)
- The Sporting Venus (1925)
- The Sporting Chance (1925)
- The Merry Widow (1925)
- The Circle (1925)
- Thank You (1925)
- Some Pun'kins (1925)
- Souls for Sables (1925)
- There You Are! (1926)
- Out of the Storm (1926)
- The Flaming Frontier (1926)
- Under Western Skies (1926)
- Son of the Sheik (1926)
- Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- Two Can Play (1926)
- The Little Firebrand (1926)
- See You in Jail (1927)
- Snowbound (1927)
- Rich Men's Sons (1927)
- Tillie the Toiler (1927)
- Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927)
- Spring Fever (1927)
- Love (1927)
- The Enemy (1927)
- The Wedding March (1928)
- Tempest (1928)
- The Little Wildcat (1928)
- Prowlers of the Sea (1928)
- Lady of the Pavements (1929)
- Fancy Baggage (1929)
- Tide of Empire (1929)
- The Four Feathers (1929)
- The Gamblers (1929)
- Wonder of Women (1929)
- Hearts in Exile (1929)
- The Bad One (1930)
- Swing High (1930)
- Ladies of Leisure (1930)
- Hello Sister (1930)
- A Woman of Experience (1931)
- Hello, Sister! (1933)
References
- ^ Katchmer, George A. (2009). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. p. 113-114. ISBN 9781476609058. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
- ^ "George Fawcett Takes Big Part in Great Movie Film". The Lima News. Ohio, Lima. September 19, 1915. p. 14. Retrieved April 16, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Fawcett.
- George Fawcett at IMDb
- George Fawcett at the Internet Broadway Database
- George Fawcett and Percy Haswell Fawcett papers, 1857–1903, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
