Earl Metcalfe (March 11, 1889 â€" January 26, 1928) was an American
actor. He 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.In a movie fight with
actor/director Joseph Kaufman, Kaufman accidentally lost some teeth
during the filming.Metcalfe died during a flight in a biplane in 1928
over Glendale or Burbank California. 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. The pilot Roy Wilson was
unharmed.
actor. He 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.In a movie fight with
actor/director Joseph Kaufman, Kaufman accidentally lost some teeth
during the filming.Metcalfe died during a flight in a biplane in 1928
over Glendale or Burbank California. 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. The pilot Roy Wilson was
unharmed.
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