Emmett Carleton King (May 31, 1865 in Griffin, Georgia, U.S. â€" April
21, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an American actor of
the stage and screen.King began his acting career on stage. His first
Broadway appearance was in 1899, in the farce, The Father of His
Country, which he wrote and starred in. He would appear in several
more Broadway productions over the next 15 years, including Mary
Jane's Pa in 1908â€"09, and the 1911 production of Ben-Hur.His screen
career was mostly as a character actor, and spanned both the silent
and sound film eras. He began his film career with a featured role in
the 1917 silent film, Mary Jane's Pa, reprising the role he had played
on Broadway almost a decade earlier. Other notable films in which he
appeared include: the 1921 silent version of Little Lord Fauntleroy,
starring Mary Pickford; 1922's The Beautiful and Damned, starring
Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan; The Prisoner of Zenda (1937),
starring Ronald Colman; James Whale's version of The Man in the Iron
Mask in 1939, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett; and Cecil B.
DeMille's 1942 swashbuckler, Reap the Wild Wind, starring Ray Milland,
John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard. His final screen performance was in
a small role as a Senator in the 1944 biopic, Wilson, with an all-star
cast headed by Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, and Geraldine
Fitzgerald. King died at the age 87, in the Woodland Hills section of
Los Angeles, California.
21, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an American actor of
the stage and screen.King began his acting career on stage. His first
Broadway appearance was in 1899, in the farce, The Father of His
Country, which he wrote and starred in. He would appear in several
more Broadway productions over the next 15 years, including Mary
Jane's Pa in 1908â€"09, and the 1911 production of Ben-Hur.His screen
career was mostly as a character actor, and spanned both the silent
and sound film eras. He began his film career with a featured role in
the 1917 silent film, Mary Jane's Pa, reprising the role he had played
on Broadway almost a decade earlier. Other notable films in which he
appeared include: the 1921 silent version of Little Lord Fauntleroy,
starring Mary Pickford; 1922's The Beautiful and Damned, starring
Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan; The Prisoner of Zenda (1937),
starring Ronald Colman; James Whale's version of The Man in the Iron
Mask in 1939, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett; and Cecil B.
DeMille's 1942 swashbuckler, Reap the Wild Wind, starring Ray Milland,
John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard. His final screen performance was in
a small role as a Senator in the 1944 biopic, Wilson, with an all-star
cast headed by Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, and Geraldine
Fitzgerald. King died at the age 87, in the Woodland Hills section of
Los Angeles, California.
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