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Chaplin in writing of Essanay and Mutual comedies.
TOTHEROH, ROLLAND
b. San Francisco, Calif., 1890. Early career as cartoonist. Photographer at Essanay. Chaplin's cameraman 1915-1947 (sometimes with others).
TURPIN, BEN
b. New Orleans, La., 1874. $'4, 120 lbs. Burlesque, 1 1 years vaudeville. Essanay 214 years. Vogue, Sennett: — "The Clever Dummy," "East Lynne with Variations," "Uncle Tom Without the Cabin," "Salome vs. Shenandoah," "Yukon Jake," "A Small Town Idol," "The Shreik of Araby." Smaller parts in talkies in "College Hero," "Love Parade," "Swing High." Died 1940.
132 lbs. Operettas: — "The Merry Widow," Gaston in "Mile. Modiste" with Fritzi Scheff. Essanay, Geo. Ade comedies., Chaplin, Billy West Co., Hal Roach, "Blood and Sand," "A Lady of Quality," "Why Worry," "A Night at the Opera." Bits in "The Thin Man," "The Great Dictator," "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Died 1948.
WILLIAMS, FRANK D.
(cameraman) b. Nashville, Mo., 1893. Essanay, chief cameraman at Keystone 414 years. "Mickey," "Queen of the Sea," Arbuckle films, Bushman and Bayne, Sessue Hayakawa, Goldwyn, Fairbanks, etc. (Invented an early process shot technique — the traveling matt). Trick work on "King Kong," "The Invisible Man."
WAITE, MALCOLM
b. Michigan, 1894. Screen career: Pathe\ "The Gold Rush," "The Monkey Talks," "Kid Boots," "The Vagabond Lover."
WHITE, LEO
b. Manchester, England, 1887. 5'6,
WILSON, TOM
b. Helena, Montana. 6'2, 220 lbs. Stage, Mrs. Fiske, etc. Screen: — "Birth of a Nation," "Americano," "Intolerance," "The Kid," "When a Man Loves," "Battling Butler," "Riley the Cop." Recently bits in talkies: — "Sergeant York," "M. Verdoux," etc.