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biographical sketches
CAMPBELL, ERIC
b. Dunoon, Scotland. 6'4, 296 lbs. D'Oyly Carte Opera Co., Karno Co. and others. Screen career in London, 2 pictures of own in N.Y. Played the "heavy" in all MutualChaplins. Killed auto accident Dec. 1917
CHAPLIN, SYDNEY
b. Cape Town, South Africa, 1885 (half brother of Charles). 5^714, 150 lbs. Stage career in London music halls, Karno, etc. Keystone late in 1914 and 1915, "A Submarine Pirate," "No One to Guide Him." Brother's manager 1916. Appeared in several First Nat. — Chaplins. Then on his own: — "Charley's Aunt," "The Man on the Box," "The Better 'Ole," "Missing Link," etc. Now in Europe.
CHASE, CHARLEY
(Charles Parrott) b. Baltimore, 1893. 6'i4 158 lbs. Vaudeville, Irish monologue, burlesque. Universal, Keystone (1914), appeared in and wrote hundreds of 2 reel comedies, Hal Roach, Columbia series, "Position Wanted," "Why Husbands Go Mad," "Bungalow Boobs," "All Wet," etc. "Sons of the Desert." Died 1940.
CHERRILL, VIRGINIA
b. Carthage, 111., 1908. 5'5, 117 lbs. Chicago society girl, no previous experience before "City Lights." Appeared in talkies: — "Girls Demand Excitement," "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case," "What
Price Crime." Married: — Irving Adler, William Rhinelander Stewart, Cary Grant, Earl of Jersey. Lives in England.
COLEMAN, FRANK J.
b. Newburg, N.Y. 5'n, 236 lbs. Quartette, stock. Screen: — L-K-O, Rolin, Essanay, Mutuals, Lehrman, Vitagraph, First National, "The Cave Girl."
CONKLIN, CHESTER
b. Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1886. j'^y^, 135 lbs. Circus clown, stock and road co. Screen: Majestic Co. (6 mo.) Keystone 1913 — "Walrus" to "Ambrose" of Mack Swain. Sennett 5 yrs. First feature: — "Greed," "We're In the Navy Now," teamed with W. C. Fields: — "Two Flaming Youths," "The Big Noise," "Varsity." Parts in talkies: — "The Virginian," "Modern Times," "Every Day's a Holiday," "Great Dictator," "Hail the Conquering Hero," "Perils of Pauline."
COOGAN, JACKIE
b. Los Angeles, 1914. Vaudeville parents, appeared with on stage before 2, with father in Annette Kellerman vaudeville act. After "The Kid," starred in "Peck's Bad Boy," "Trouble," "Oliver Twist," "Long Live the King," "Tom Sawyer," "College Swing." Was in army. Vaudeville. "Kilroy Was Here," "French Leave." Now in business. Married Betty Grable (1937), Flower Parry, Ann McCormack.