(for non-related playwright and fellow actor Willard Mack, see Willard
Mack)Wilbur Mack (born George Frear Runyon, July 29, 1873 â€" March
13, 1964) was an American film actor and early vaudeville performer
from the 1920s through the 1960s. His film acting career began during
the silent film era.Mack was born and raised in Binghamton, New York,
and began acting professionally when he joined a repertory theatre
when he was 16. He found success performing vaudeville with first wife
Nella Walker ("Mack and Walker"). The couple divorced not far into the
marriage and Walker subsequently found success as a supporting actress
in the "talkies." Mack, meantime, found a new partner: Gertrude Purdy,
with whom he reprised his popular husband and wife vaudeville routine
(this time headlined "Mack and Purdy"). In addition to performing,
Mack wrote dialogue for skits and words and music for songs in their
vaudeville shows.In 1925 Mack entered into a film acting career. His
first film appearance was Gold and Grit. With wife Gertrude, he also
wrote and performed in a Vitaphone romantic comedy pantomime An
Everyday Occurrence (1928).
Mack)Wilbur Mack (born George Frear Runyon, July 29, 1873 â€" March
13, 1964) was an American film actor and early vaudeville performer
from the 1920s through the 1960s. His film acting career began during
the silent film era.Mack was born and raised in Binghamton, New York,
and began acting professionally when he joined a repertory theatre
when he was 16. He found success performing vaudeville with first wife
Nella Walker ("Mack and Walker"). The couple divorced not far into the
marriage and Walker subsequently found success as a supporting actress
in the "talkies." Mack, meantime, found a new partner: Gertrude Purdy,
with whom he reprised his popular husband and wife vaudeville routine
(this time headlined "Mack and Purdy"). In addition to performing,
Mack wrote dialogue for skits and words and music for songs in their
vaudeville shows.In 1925 Mack entered into a film acting career. His
first film appearance was Gold and Grit. With wife Gertrude, he also
wrote and performed in a Vitaphone romantic comedy pantomime An
Everyday Occurrence (1928).
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