Earl Metcalfe
Earl Metcalfe (March 11, 1889 – January 26, 1928) was an American actor.
Biography
[edit ]Born in 1889, Metcalfe appeared in the films The Fortune Hunter , While New York Sleeps , What Women Will Do , White Eagle , While Justice Waits , The Great Night , Look Your Best , Skid Proof , Fair Week , The Silent Accuser , Silk Stocking Sal , The Man Without a Country , The Ship of Souls , Partners Again , With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail , The Midnight Sun , The Call of the Klondike , The Midnight Message , The Mystery Club , Atta Boy , Love's Blindness , Remember , The Notorious Lady , and The Devil's Saddle , among others.[1]
In a movie fight with actor/director Joseph Kaufman, Kaufman accidentally lost some teeth during the filming.[2]
Metcalfe died during a flight in a biplane in 1928 over Glendale or Burbank California.[3] He had taken up flying as a recreation and was undergoing pilot training. Various sources have Metcalfe falling from the airplane or jumping from it, indicating a suicide. The plane is reported to have been looping-the-loop or in a barrel roll, two different aerial maneuvers.[4] The pilot Roy Wilson was unharmed.
Partial filmography
[edit ]- A Romance of the Border (1912)*short
- A Girl's Bravery (1912)*short
- The Moonshiner's Daughter (1912)*short
- Gentleman Joe (1912)*short
- Juan and Juanita (1912)*short
- The Water Rats (1912)*short
- Kitty and the Bandits (1912)*short
- The Bravery of Dora (1912)*short
- The Mexican Spy (1913)*short
- Private Smith (1913)*short
- The Price of Jealousy (1913)*short
- Down on the Rio Grande (1913)*short
- The Regeneration of Nancy (1913)*short
- The First Prize (1913)*short
- The Soul of a Rose (1913)*short
- Sixes and Nines (1913)
- The Moonshiner's Wife (1913)*short
- Women of the Desert (1913)*short
- The Daughters of Men (1914)
- The Ringtailed Rhinosceros (1915)
- The World to Live In (1919)
- Coax Me (1919)
- The Battler (1919)
- The Woman of Lies (1919)
- The Poison Pen (1919)
- The Fortune Hunter (1920)
- The Chamber Mystery (1920)
- The Garter Girl (1920)
- While New York Sleeps (1920)
- The Face at Your Window (1920)
- What Women Will Do (1921)
- Mother Eternal (1921)
- Eden and Return (1921)
- White Eagle (1922)
- Back to Yellow Jacket (1922)
- Ignorance (1922)
- The New Teacher (1922)
- Boomerang Justice (1922)
- While Justice Waits (1922)
- The Great Night (1922)
- The Power of a Lie (1922)
- Look Your Best (1923)
- Skid Proof (1923)
- The Lone Wagon (1923)
- Fair Week (1924)
- Surging Seas (1924)
- The Valley of Hate (1924)
- The Courageous Coward (1924)
- The Silent Accuser (1924)
- Silk Stocking Sal (1924)
- The Man Without a Country (1925)
- The Ship of Souls (1925)
- Sin Cargo (1926)
- The High Flyer (1926)
- Daring Deeds (1927)
- Night Life (1927)
References
[edit ]- ^ "Earl Metcalfe". AllMovie. Retrieved 2019年04月15日.
- ^ "In the Studios", New York Daily Mirror, May 5, 1915
- ^ Earl Metcalfe at findagrave.com
- ^ Various newspapers reporting Earle Metcalfe's demise, New Britain Herald, The Indianapolis Times, Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Evening Star[Washington D.C.]
External links
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- Earl Metcalfe at IMDb
- Earle Metcalfe allmovie.com