Roland Bottomley (1880-1947) was a British born American stage and film actor from
Liverpool, England
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
. Some sources have him born in 1878 and others in 1879.
[''American and British Theatrical Biography'', p.125 c.1979 by J. P. Wearing ..] He came to America circa 1913 and settled in California. He first made movies for the
Kalem Company
The Kalem Company was an early American film studio founded in New York City in 1907 in film, 1907. It was one of the first companies to make films abroad and to set up winter production facilities, first in Florida and then in California. Kalem ...
. By the 1920s he acted at Paramount, Fox, Universal and for
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince (November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent film - era filmmaker and media proprietor.
Ince was known as the "Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films. He revolutionized the mo ...
. After his last film in 1925 he returned to Broadway for the remainder of his career. Bottomley died in New York at the beginning of 1947.
Selected filmography
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The Green Cloak
''The Green Cloak'' is a surviving 1915 American silent mystery film directed by Walter Edwin and starring Broadway stage actress Irene Fenwick.
An extant film, a print is held by George Eastman House.
Cast
* Irene Fenwick as Ruth McAllister
*Bl ...
'' (1915)
*''The Net of Deceit'' (1915)*short
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The Grip of Evil'' (1916)
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The Neglected Wife
''The Neglected Wife'' is a 1917 American drama film serial directed by William Bertram.
Cast
* Ruth Roland as Margaret Warner
* Roland Bottomley as Horace Kennedy
* Corinne Grant as Mary Kennedy
* Neil Hardin as Edgar Doyle (as Neil C. Hardi ...
'' (1917)
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The Devil
Satan,, ; grc, ὁ σατανᾶς or , ; ar, شيطانالخَنَّاس , also known as the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood ...
'' (1921)
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The Charming Deceiver
''The Charming Deceiver'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by George L. Sargent and starring Alice Calhoun, Charles Kent and Robert Gaillard.
Cast
* Alice Calhoun as Edith Denton Marsden
* Jack McLean as Frank Denton
* Charles Ke ...
'' (1921)
* ''
A Man's Home'' (1921)
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Modern Marriage
''Modern Marriage'' is a 1923 American silent crime drama film directed by Lawrence C. Windom and Victor Heerman. It starred Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne in one of their last appearances together.
Cast
Preservation status
A print of ' ...
'' (1923)
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Does It Pay?'' (1923)
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow'' (1924)
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Enticement
''Enticement'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Mary Astor, Clive Brook, and Ian Keith.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, Leonore Bewlay (Astor), recently grown into womanhood, wh ...
'' (1925
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman'' (1925)
References
External links
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1880 births
1947 deaths
Male actors from Liverpool
British emigrants to the United States
Burials at Kensico Cemetery