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The MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC
1929
nele." "Heart of Maryland." "The Retieeming Sin" and "Stark Mad." Amonp his other pictures are "Manhattan Madneas." "Fifty-Fifty" and "Big Brother."
ROGERS. CHARLES (Bt'DDY): b. Olathe. Kan., August 13 ; h. 6 feet : black hair and eyos : w, 175 pounds; p. Maude and Bert Hem v Rogers, non-professionals ; e. Olathe high school. University of Kansas, and was trained for the screen in The Paramount Picture School ; by. music and gymnastics. Has appeared in^ such pictures as "Fascinating Youth," "Wings." "My Best Girl." "Get Y.our Man." "Abie's Irish Rose." "Varsity" and "Someone to Love."
ROLAND, GILBERT: r. n., Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso : b. Juarez. Mexico. December 11, 1905: h, 5 feet 11 inches; black hair and brown ey^ ; w. 165 pounds; p. Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Alonso. non-professionals ; e, private schools in Mexico. He hats appeared in "The Plastic Age," "The Campus Flirt" in support of Bebe Daniels; "The Blonde Saint" for Firbt National ; in "CamiJle" as leading man for Norma Talmadge. First National picture; and in "The Dove" and "The Woman Disputed." also as leading man for Norma Talmadge, United Artists productions.
ROLLINS. DAVID: b, Kansas City, Mo., September 2, 1909 ; h, 5 feet 10^^ inches ; brown hair and blue eyefi ; w. 135 pounds; p. nonprofessionals; e. Northwast high school, Kansas City, and Glendale high. Glendale. Cal.. college at Culver, Ind., and received his stage training in school : hy. riding, tennis, swimming, golf, hiking and motor boats. Has appeared in the following pictures: "High School Hero," directed by David Butler, juvenile; "Love Is Blonde." comedy, lead: "Win That Girl." with Sue Carol, lead ; "Air Circus," directed by Hawks, lead ; "Prep and Pep." directed by John Ford, juvenile ; "Our Daily Break." directed by Mui-nau ; and Fox Movietone Follies ; all Fox productions. Also in Universal's "Thanks for the Buggy Ride," directed by William Seiter.
ROMAN, FRANK: b. Granada. Spain. September 25. 190y ; h. 5 feet 10 inches; black hair and dark brown eyes; w. 150 pounds; p, Antonia Sierra and Ellas Roman, non-professionals; e. High school in California and Dramatic school : not married ; hy, all outdoor sports. Stage experience of two years in stock. Screen experience since 1927 and has appeared in "Four Devils" and "The Veiled Woman."
ROQUEMORE. HENRY: b. Marshall. Tex.. March 13. ISvSS ; h, 5 feet 6 inches; gray hair and dark eyet^ ; w, 222 povmds ; p, Mary Myers and John Lewis Roiiueniore. non-pi"ofessionals ; e, Palestine high ischool and the University of Texas ; m. Fern Enimett. professional ; hy, golf and riding. Stage exi>erience of 27 years consists of appearances in the following productions: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway," "The Man on the Box," "Fair and Warmer." "The Traveling Salesman" and "When We Were Twenty-one." Screen experience consists of roles in such inctures as "The Wagon Show," **Sinners in Love" and "Stocks and Blondes."
ROSS. CHURCHILL: r. n.. Ross Weigle : b. Lafayette. Ind.. January 29. 1901 ; h, 5 feet 7 inches: blonde hair and blue grey eyes; w. 120 pounds : p. non-professionals ; e. Jefferson high school and the Exeter Academy. New Hampshire ; not married ; hy, reading, writing and music. Played in the Little theatre. Indianaix>lis, for a short time. He has appeared with F B O. First National and Paramount, and in "The Collegians" series for Universal.
RUBEN. J. WALTER: b. New York City. August. 1899 ; h. 5 feet loVj inches : brown hair and eyes; w, 156 pounds; ji. Ruth Waltern and Max Rubens, non-professionals; e. DeWitt Clinton high school. New York City, and Columbia university ; received his stage training when but a child ; m. June Stevenson, non-professional ; by, dogs and ,jnze-fighting. Screen experience includes such pictures as "The Gay Retreat." "The Last Outlaw." "Shootin' Irons" and "Under the Tonto Rim" in 1927 ; and "The Vanishing Pioneer," "Fools for Luck," "Avalanche" and "Sunset Pass" in 192S.
RUBIN. BENNY: b. Boston. Mass.. February 2 ; h. 5 feet l^i^ inches; black hair and brown eyes ; w, 142 pounds ; p. non-professionals ; e. on stage ; m, professional ; hy. boxing, baseball and golf. Spent nine years in vaudeville ; two in burlesque and holds record for engagements at the Palace theatre. New York City, for a total of six weeks out of seven. Also first actor to be held over at the Capitol theatre. New York. Played in stock in New York, Boston, Chicago and Portland, Me. With "Gay
Paree" and "Half a Widow" company and long engagements in all large Eastern theatres. Sent for by Fox and started his screen career in "Daisies Won't Tell." Now under contract to Universal.
SARGENT. LEWIS: b. Los Angeles. Cal., 1904 ; h. 5 feet 9 inches ; light brown hair and gray-green eyes ; w. 150 pounds ; p, Elsa and Lewis Sargent, non-prof eesionals ; e. Issiacs Business college ; m. Pauline Buzzard, non-professional ; hy. fishing, hunting, boxing, riding, rowing, swimming, tumbling and driving. Stage appearances at the Glendale Community theatre in 1924. Screen experience consists of roles of Huck in "Huckleberry Finn" in 1919 ; the star in "Soul of Youth" for Paramount ; co-starred in "Just Around the Corner" in 1921 for Cosmopolitan, New^ York ; starred in 15 one-reelei-s for Universal in 1923 ; Noah Claypool in "Oliver Twist" in 1924 for United Artists; Jimmy Cooke in "Racing Blood" series for R K O in 1928. Also had parte in "The River Pirate" and "Roadhouse" for Fox in 1928 : and in "The Godless Girl," a DeMille production.
SCHILDKRAUT, JOSEPH: b. Vienna, Austria, March 22; h. 5 feet 9^4 inches; black hair and eyes ; w. 146 pounds ; p. Mrs. Rudoli>h Schildkraut. father professional ; e. graduate of Mommsen college. Berlin, and Imi^erial Academy of Music in Vienna, and Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York ; m, Elise Bartlett, professional ; hy. dogs, music and book collecting. Five years under Max Reinhardt in Berlin and Vienna, later starring for New York Theatre Guild in "Peer Gynt." "Firebrand," etc. He has been in pictures on and off for six years, appearing in such pictures as "King of Kings," "Road to Yesterday," "Heart Thief." "Forbidden Woman." "Tenth Avenue," "Show Boat." He is at present under contract to Universal.
SEATON. SCOTT: b. Sacramento. Cal., March II, 1878; h. 5 feet 10*^ inches; gray hair and brown eyes ; w, 170 pounds ; p, Mary
Cheefman and Horace Seaton. non-profe.ssional(s ; e, Oakland high school ; widower ; hy. automobiles and theatres. Stage exi>erience includes traveling in stock for five years with James Neill ; in "Hills of California" with Frank Bacon ; and was starred in "What Hapiiened to Jones" with Harry Carson Clark. Screen experience since 1926 as the father in "Wild Beauty" for Universal ; the Judge in "The Greyhound Limited," an audien. with Monte Blue for Warner Brothers; the colonel in "Leathernecks" for Pathe and in 14 pictures for Fox,
SHELDON. GENE: r. n.. Eugene Hume; b. Columbus, O., February 1, 1908; h, 5 feet 8 inches ; brown hair and hazel eyes ; w, 143 pounds ; ji. Ada and C. R. Hume, non-professionals ; e. West high school ; not married ; hy. music, football, investments, singing, swimming and track sports. Four years' stage training starting out at the age of 16 playing amateur dates in and around Columbus. O.. and finally joined a small musical comedy show, Ray nor Tehr & Company. Columbus ; later iilayed 24 weeks with six peoide "flash" act : thence to a cabaret where he discovered accidentally that he could do comedy, s^oon after conceiving the act he is doing at the present time. Contemplates a contract with Hal Roach.
SILLS. MILTON: b. Chicago. 111., January 12 ; h, 6 feet IMj inches; brown hair and grey eyes ; w. 190 pounds ; p, Josephine Antoinette and William Henry Sills, non-professionals; e. Hyde Park high school, and the Univei-sity of Chicago, Chicago. III. : received his stage training as leading man in Belasco. Shubert, Frohman and Brady shows; m. Doris Kenyon. professional ; hy, tennis, horseback riding, chess, gardening, swimming and reading. Stage ex
jierience as leading man in "This Woman and This Man." Avery Hop wood production : "Just to Get Married," Clyde FitchFrohman production : "Governor's Lady," Belasco production ; "Law of the Land." "Panthea," Shubert i)roduction : "The Man Inside," Belasco production ; "Diplomacy." Gordon production, and also appeared in Shakespearean roles. Some of his more recent pictures are "The Barker," "Burning Daylight." "The Crash." "The Hawk's Nest" and "The Valley of Giants."'
SIMPSON. RUSSELL: b, San Francisco. Cal.. June 17, 1880 ; h, 5 feet 1 inch ; auburn hair and blue eyes ; w, 170 pounds ; p, Alice and William Simpson, non-professionals ; e, graduate of grammar school, and received his stage training in stock in San Francisco and Seattle ; m. Gertrude Alter, formerly a singer ; hy, carving and working in wood and iron. On the stage he api)eared in the road shows of "Quincy Adams Sawyer." "York State Folks" and "Right of Sword" : also with Henry Savage in "The College Widow" ; in David Belasco's "The Girl of the Golden West" and "What's Wrong" ; and with Klaw & Erlanger's "The Count of Luxembourg." He has had various roles in such pictures as "The Barrier." Lubin production ; "Tates Boomerang," World film ; "Blue Jeans." Metro pro<luction ; "The Brand." "Beauty Pulls the Strings" and "Godless Men," Goldw^yn productions ; "The Virginian," B. P. Schulberg production ; "The Girl of the Golden West." Edwin Carewe ; "Annie Laurie" and "Trail of "98," Metro-Gold^\'yn-Mayer ; and in TiffanyStahl's "Wild Geese."
SIDNEY. GEORGE: r. n., Sammy Greenfield:
b. Hungary, March 15. 1878; h, 5 feet 3 inches; dark brown hair and eyes: w, 190 pounds; p. Esther Blerch and Nathan Greenfield ; not married ; hy, amusements. Thirty years' stage experience, appearing in "Busy Issy" for 14 yeais. in "Welcome, Stranger" and in "Give and Take." Has appeared in such screen successes as "Potash and Perlmutter," "The Cohens and the Kellys," "Prince of Pilscn," "Auctioneer," "We Americans." "Lost at the Front," "Life of Riley" and "Millionaires."
SMALLEY, PHILLIPS: r. n.. Wendell Phillips Smalley ; b. Brooklyn, N. Y.. August 7. 1875: h, 6 feet; brown hair and eyes; w, ISO pounds ; p, Phoebe Garnaut { adopted daughter of Wendell Phillips) and George Washington Smalley, non-prof es.sionals ; e. Balliol college. Oxford university. Harvard university and Harvard Law school ; m. Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin. professional : hy, books, water colors, tennis, riding, glass and china. Stage api>earances were with Mrs. Fiske in "Mirando of the Balcony," "Little Italy," "Divorcons," "Tess of the d'Urbervilles." "Captain Mally," and "Hedda Gabler" about two years; three years in "Why Girls Leave Home" ; one year with Bertha Gallande in "Return of Eve" ; and two years with Dust in Farnum in "The Squaw Man." Also with Raymond Hitchcock in "Galloper" and "Yankee Tourist" for three years : and with Macloon & Albei-tson, Los Angeles playhouse, in "The Goose Hangs High," "Cradle Snatchers." "Young Blood," and "Door Mat," taking the lead in the latter two. He has starred, directed and produced 350 pictures in conjunction with Lois Weber; spent seven yeans with Universal ; two years with Bosworth. inc. : four with the Rex Company : one \\nth the New York Motion Picture Company ; and one and one-half years with Gaumont Talking Pictures as star and director with Lois Weber.
SMITH. STANLEY: b. Kansas City. 1905: h, 6 feet ; fair haired and blue-grey eyes ; w, 155 pounds : p. non-profe.ssionals ; e. high school in Hollywood and in Kansas City ; received his stage training in high school amateur performances. Stage experience consists of appearances as the juvenile role in "Kiki :" the shell-shocked lieutenant in "What Price Glory" on road tour, starting in San Francisco and extending to Canada and the East ; followed by two years in stock fir.st in the Brandeis theatre. Omaha, and then at Houston. Tex., playing juvenile leads exclusively. Intended to go on with the legitimate stage, and had already made plans to appear in "The Royal Family." starring Charlotte Walker at the Geary theatre, San Francisco, opening September 16. when he was seen by Paul Bern and immediately signed. He will appear in his first screen venture in the very near future, following his engagement in "The Royal Family."
SOJIN. KAMIYAMA: h, Sendai, Japan, Jan
uai-y 30. 1891; h. 5 feet 9 inches; black hair and brown eyes ; w. 140 ix)unds ; p. Uraji Tsunogawa and Goro Kamiyama. non-professionals: e. at Daini Chugaku. Miyagi. Waseda univei«ity in Tokyo, and received his stage training at the Imperial theatre in Tokyo : m. Ura Mita. professional ; hy, hunting and fishing. In his 20 years on the stage he has taken various parts in Shakespeare's plays such as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice," Hamlet in "Hamlet." Macl>eth in "Macbeth," and Othello in "Othello" ; also the part of Faust in Goethe's