Jack Rockwell Trowbridge (October 6, 1890 – November 10, 1947) was an American film actor who was born in Mexico. He appeared in over 250 movies, mostly Westerns, between 1927 and 1947.
Rockwell's older brother was character actor
Charles Trowbridge
Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1882 – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1915 and 1958.
Biography
Trowbridge was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where his father served in the ...
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In the 1920s, prior to embarking on a professional career as actor, he worked as a fireman.
His death in 1947 was due to
hypostatic pneumonia
Pneumonia is an Inflammation, inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as Pulmonary alveolus, alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of phlegm, productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, ...
, not a "nervous breakdown" as claimed on
IMDb
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Selected filmography
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1890 births
1947 deaths
American male film actors
Male actors from Veracruz
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
20th-century American male actors
Male Western (genre) film actors
Mexican emigrants to the United States
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