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OBITUARY
CHIC CHIVVIS, a former stunt man and Westerns actor of the silent days, at 79, in Hollywood.
HENRY DANIELL, English born character actor, who appeared in Jane Eyre and All This and Heaven Too among others, shortly before reporting for a part in My Fair Lady, at 69, in Santa Monica, of heart attack.
VERNON DENT, silent comic with the Mack Sennett team who later turned to script writing, at 68, in Hollywood.
HARRY GRAY, who produced many of the Republic ‘Westerns’ in the late “thirties and early ‘forties, at 57, in Hollywood, of heart attack.
DOROTHY GREEN, silent star who appeared opposite William Farnum and Montagu Love and whose films included The American Way and Forest Rivals and the serial Souls Aflame, at 71, in New York.
ROLAND LEIGH, lyric writer and screen-writer, whose credits included Tovarich and Summer Storm and several Tarzan pictures, at 60, in Durate, California.
HENRY F. MALTBY, British born actor and writer, who appeared in more than 70 films, at 82, in London.
ADOLPHE MENJOU, silent star, from Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris to the recent Disney Pollyana, who appeared in over 250 films, supported the McCarthy Un-American Activities Committee against some Hollywood artists, visited Toronto in 1963 for a CBC TV Flashback, at 73, in Beverly Hills.
PAUL PERRY, pioneer cameraman with Famous Players-Lasky who was cameraman for Blanche Sweet, Mae Murray and others, in Hollywood, after a long retirement.
JIMMY RUSSELL, British born comedian who was with Chaplin in The Humming Birds show, at 77, in Bognor Regis.
THOMAS L. WALKER, who was one of the great film financiers of the ‘thirties, who retired in 1954, a former Bank of America official, at 69, in Hollywood.