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biographical sketches
"Kismet," "Alice in Wonderland." Died 1939.
ST. JOHN, AL
b. Santa Ana, Calif. 5'8, 140 lbs. Musical comedy. Keystone 1914, "Fatty and Mabel Adrift," "He Did and He Didn't," teamed with Arbuckle, "The Butcher Boy," "A Reckless Romeo," "Fast and Furious," "Special Delivery," "American Beauty," "Casey Jones," "Hello Cheyenne," "The Dance of Life." Now appears in westerns, with beard, as Al (Fuzzy) St. John. "Hopalong Cassidy," "Arizona Terror," "Stagecoach Express," "Jesse James, Jr.," etc.
STOCKDALE, CARL
b. Worthington, Minn., 1874. 5' 11, 155 lbs. Stock and vaudeville. 3 yrs. Essanay, Rolfe, Fine Arts, Belshazzar's father in Griffith's, "Intolerance," in Fairbank's "Americano," "Suzanna," "While London Sleeps," "Shepherd of the Hills," "Oliver Twist," "The Terror," "The Love Parade," "The Lost Horizon," "Blockade," "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
SUMMERVILLE, SLIM
b. Albuquerque, New Mex., 1892. 6'2, 164 lbs. Musical comedy, vaudeville, stock. Keystone, 1913, "His Bread and Butter," "A Dog Catcher's Love," series comedies for Fox, Universal, F.B.O. Features:— "Beloved Rogue," "Last Warning." Biggest success in "All Quiet on the Western Front," (1930). Teamed with Zasu Pitts,
"Unexpected Father," "Capt. January," "Jesse Jones," "Western Union," "Morgan Falls." Died
SUTHERLAND, EDWARD A.
b. London, 1897, 5'8, 160 lbs. Musical comedy. Nephew by marriage to Thomas Meighan. Screen: — actor in Helen Holmes serial, Keystone juvenile and director, assistant on "A Woman of Paris." Directed: — "It's the Old Army Game," "Behind the Front," "We're In the Navy Now." Talkies: — "Paramount on Parade," "Mississippi," "Diamond Jim," "Poppy," "The Invisible Woman," "Follow the Boy," "Secret Command." Television direction.
SWAIN, MACK
b. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1876, 6'2, 240 lbs. Actor and Manager of own co., vaudeville, musical comedy, drama, stock. Keystone 1913 on, Chaplin's 1st National pictures. Later: — "Hands Up," "The Beloved Rogue," "Torrent," "My Best Girl," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "The Last Warning," "Marianne," "Finn and Hattie." Died 1935.
TERRELL, MAVERICK
b. Indianapolis, Ind., 1875. University of Indiana Law School. Writer of magazine fiction and stage plays, "The Woman in the Park," "Temperament," etc. Coauthor with Rachael Marshall of the plays, "The Cave Lady," and "Friday the Thirteenth." Assisted