The world film encyclopedia (1933)

112 ^KNA-LAK) Biographies of the Players KNAPP, EvALYN. B. Kansas City, Mo., June 17, 1908. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 4 in. Wt. 7 st. 7 lb. Ed. Kansas City High School ; Kansas Junior College. Was originally a school teacher. Gave this up to go on the stage. Later entered the film world without any fanfare of trumpets. Is reputed to have the smallest waistline in Hollywood — 21 inches. One of her best known films was Sinner's Holiday (Warner, 1930). Also Played in : River's End (Warner), Gentlemen of the Evening (Pathe), The Tight Squeeze (Pathe), Hard-Boiled Hampton (Pathe), Big-Time Charlie (Path6), Love, Honour and Oh, Baby (Pathe), The Smooth Guy (Path6), All Stuck-Up (Pathe), Beach Babies (Pathe), Haunted (Pathe), Wednesday at the Ritz (Pathe), Chills and Fever (Pathe), Keeping Company (Vita). Smart Money (Warner), Millionaire (Warner), High Pressure (Warner), Mother's Cry (F.N.), Fifty Million Frenchmen (Warner), Fireman Save My Child (F.N.), Fame (Warner), Side Show (Warner), The Bargain (F.N.), Strange Love of Molly Louvain (F.N.), New York Town (F.N.), The Vanishing Frontier (Para), Sporting Widow (Para), Successful Calamity (Warner), Night Mayor (Col), This Sporting Age (Col), Tess of the Storm Country (Fox), Slightly Married (Invincible). KOHLER, Fred. B. Kansas Cit5^ Missouri, April 20. 18S9. Light brown hair, blue eyes. Ht. 6 ft. Wt. 14 st. 4 lb. Ed. Kansas City High School. First became known in Western pictures produced by the old Selig Company, one of his earliest pictures for them being The Code of Honour. Also Played in : A Soldier's Plaything (Warner), The Thundering Herd (Para), Way of All Flesh (Para), Old Ironsides (Para), City Gone Wild (Para), Underworld (Para), Shooting Irons (Para), Leatherneck (Para), Quitter (Col), Broadway Babies (F.N.), Case of Lena Smith (Para), The Dummy (Para), River of Romance (Para), Stairs of Sand (Para), Thunderbolt (Para), Light of Western Stars (Para), Roadhouse Nights (Para), Right of Way (F.N.), Hell's Heroes (Univ), Under a Texas Moon (Warner), Steel Highway (Warner), Fighting Caravans (Para), The Lash (F.N.), The Challenge (F.N.), Corsair (U.A.), X Marks the Spot (Tiffany), Carnival Boat (Rogers), Rider of Death Valley (Univ), Defiance (Univ.). KONSTAM, Phyllis. B. Hampstead, London, April 14, 1907. Dark brown hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 6 in. Wt. 9 st. Ed. Godstow School ; Bayford House School. M. H. W. Austin (the famous tennis player), 1931. Began her stage career at the Comedie Francaise in Paris ; coming to this country was engaged to play Abigail in The Duke of Malta (1925). Was seen by Alfred Hitchcock when playing in the crowd in Chainpagne (B.I. P., 1928), and given a part in Murder (B.I. P., 1930). Also Played in : Escape (A.T.P.), Compromising Daphne (B.I. P.), The Skin Game (B.I. P.), Tilly of Bloomsbury (Sterling), Gentleman of Paris (Gau-Brit.), Murder on the Second Floor (W.B.-F.N.). KOVE, Kenneth. B. London, 1893. Fair hair, grey eyes. Ed. King's College. Married ; i son. Has won fame on stage and screen in " frozen faced " comedy roles. Popular with the Aldwych Theatre (London) audiences, and is an outstanding figure in many British films. Made his screen d.eb-at in Murder {BLV ., 1930). Also Played in : The Great Game (Gau-Brit), Doivn River (Gau-Brit), Fascination (B.I. P.), Chance of a Night Time (B. & D.), Out of the Blue (B.I. P.), Mischief (B. & D.), Pyjamas Preferred (B.I. P.), The Man at Six (B.I.P.), Help Yourself (W.B.-F.N.), No. 17 (B.I.P.). Paris by Night (BJ.P.), Diamond Cut Diamond (Eric Hakim), Bachelor's Baby (B.I. P.), Two White Arms (Eric Hakim), Matt from Toronto (Gains). KRAUSS, Werner. B. Germany. Has long been one of the leading stage actors in Germany. His performance in The Cabinet of I)octor Caligari (Decla, 1919). "when he played the part of Caligari, will long be remembered. The Viking film. Waxworks (1924), was another fine piece of work, in which Conrad Veidt and Emil Jannings played the other leading characters. Also Played in : The Joyless Street (Sofar), Student of Prague (Sokal), Tartuffe (U.F.A.), The Man Without a Name {V.F.A.). LAKE, Arthur. Real name, Arthur Silverlake. B. Corbin, Kentucky. Light brown hair, blue eyes. Ht. 6 ft. Wt. 12 St. II lb. Ed. Tutored at home. Arthur Lake was one of the brightest of the younger players at the time when talking pictures became an accomplished fact. He has been in the show business from his earliest babyhood, having been