Roy Applegate | |
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Born | Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, U.S. | December 7, 1878
Died | February 9, 1950 Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 71)
Occupation | Film actor |
Roy Applegate (7 December 1878 – 9 February 1950) was an American actor
Background
He played Judge Gates in The Child of Destiny (1916),[1][2] Opera House Manager in The Musician's Daughter (1911),[3] Arthur Jepson in All for a Girl (1915),[4] Simon Legree in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914),[5] Mackenzie in A Man's Law (1918),[6] and Detective in Sally of the Sawdust (1925).[7] He also appeared in The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde (1915).[8]
Death
He was reported missing since February 9, 1950, and found dead in the bathroom of his home by his sister and brother-in-law due to a heart attack.[9]
Filmography
- He Couldn't Help It (1927)
- Tin Gods (1926)
- Sally of the Sawdust (1925) as Detective
- Yolanda (1924) as Sir Karl Pitti
- Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920) as Capt. Harris
- Babs (1920) as Jabez Prouty
- The Midnight Bride (1920) as James Weir
- The Friendly Call (1920)
- The Prey (1920) as Pete Canard
- Upside Down (1919) as James Wortley Tammers
- The Cambric Mask (1919) as Henry Murden
- Once to Every Man (1918) as Dave
- The Daredevil (1918) as Col. Robert Carruthers
- A Man's Law (1918) as Mackenzie
- The Child of Destiny (1916) as Judge Gates
- Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph (1916) as Judge Winters
- The Kiss of Hate (1916) as Goliath
- A Daughter of the Sea (1915) as Alexander Gibson
- The Bludgeon (1915) as Fred Hillman
- The Game of Three (1915) as Bud, assistant detective
- All for a Girl (1915) as Arthur Jepson / Old farmer
- Her Husband's Honor (1915) as Deputy Grayson
- The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde (1915) as Big Charles
- The Avalanche (1915) as Peter Vaughan
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914) as Simon Legree
- The Musician's Daughter (1911) as Opera House Manager
- Hands Across the Sea in '76 (1911)
References
- ^ "The Child of Destiny". The Moving Picture World. 29. World Photographic Publishing Company: 884. 1916.
- ^ Nash, Jay Robert; Connelly, Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (1988). Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910–1936. Cinebooks. pp. 8, 329, 331. ISBN 9780933997103.
- ^ Griffithiana. Cineteca D.W. Griffith. 1992. pp. 92–93.
- ^ Connelly 1998, p. 8.
- ^ Connelly 1998, p. 291.
- ^ Connelly 1998, p. 383.
- ^ Usai, Paolo Cherchi (2006). Bowser, Eileen; Rowell, Cynthia (eds.). The Griffith Project. Vol. 10. British Film Institute. p. 177. ISBN 9781844572199.
- ^ Langman, Larry; Finn, Daniel (1994). A guide to American silent crime films. Greenwood Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780313288586.
- ^ "Roy Applegate, Actor, Veteran, Found Dead". The Morning Call. 11 February 1950. p. 5. Retrieved 28 September 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36. Vol. 40 (2nd ed.). December Press. p. 439. ISBN 9780913204368.