Frederick Roger Imhof (August 15, 1875 â€" April 15, 1958) was an
American film actor, vaudeville, burlesque and circus performer,
sketch writer, and songwriter.Imhof was born in Rock Island, Illinois
and began his career as a circus clown, with the Mills Orton Circus,
and as an Irish comic. He "toured in vaudeville and burlesque between
1895 and 1930." By 1897, he was "teamed with Charles Osborne in a
comedy contortion and burlesque acrobatics act." Around this time, he
dropped an "f" from his last name.In the 1902â€"1903 season, he first
worked with longtime vaudeville partner Hugh Conn, an association that
lasted into the 1920s or possibly 1930s. Marcel Corinne (died 1977),
sometimes spelled Coreene, joined the act sometime in the 1910s. She
and Imhof married in 1913. The trio of Imhof, Conn and Corinne toured
in two comic sketches, "The Pest House" and "Surgeon Louder, U.S.A.",
the latter "a military comedy" Imhof had written. "The Pest House" was
"the most popular and longest running of several sketches starring the
portly pair Roger Imhof and Marcel Corinne". According to an October
1920 edition of the Oregon Daily Journal, the sketch involved Imhof
playing an Irish peddler who spends a mishap-filled night at an inn.
In 1923, he appeared in the Broadway play Jack and Jill.He reportedly
invested in Chicago and Los Angeles real estate, but lost most of his
money in the stock market and during the Great Depression.
American film actor, vaudeville, burlesque and circus performer,
sketch writer, and songwriter.Imhof was born in Rock Island, Illinois
and began his career as a circus clown, with the Mills Orton Circus,
and as an Irish comic. He "toured in vaudeville and burlesque between
1895 and 1930." By 1897, he was "teamed with Charles Osborne in a
comedy contortion and burlesque acrobatics act." Around this time, he
dropped an "f" from his last name.In the 1902â€"1903 season, he first
worked with longtime vaudeville partner Hugh Conn, an association that
lasted into the 1920s or possibly 1930s. Marcel Corinne (died 1977),
sometimes spelled Coreene, joined the act sometime in the 1910s. She
and Imhof married in 1913. The trio of Imhof, Conn and Corinne toured
in two comic sketches, "The Pest House" and "Surgeon Louder, U.S.A.",
the latter "a military comedy" Imhof had written. "The Pest House" was
"the most popular and longest running of several sketches starring the
portly pair Roger Imhof and Marcel Corinne". According to an October
1920 edition of the Oregon Daily Journal, the sketch involved Imhof
playing an Irish peddler who spends a mishap-filled night at an inn.
In 1923, he appeared in the Broadway play Jack and Jill.He reportedly
invested in Chicago and Los Angeles real estate, but lost most of his
money in the stock market and during the Great Depression.
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