William Norwood Wadsworth (7 June 1874â€"6 June 1950) was an American
actor of the silent era best known for his roles in early Westerns,
playing the villain in What Happened to Mary? (1912), the first
Western film serial and for playing Samuel Pickwick in Mr Pickwick's
Predicament (1912), an early screen adaptation of The Pickwick
Papers.Wadsworth was born in Pigeon Cove in Massachusetts in 1874, the
son of William Wadsworth (born 1842) and Adelia K Leonard (born 1846).
Originally a theatrical producer, the chubby and prematurely bald
Wadsworth became an actor of the silent era in 1909 in Why Girls Leave
Home. Among the more than 60 films he made for the Edison
Manufacturing Company and others are The Daisy Cowboys (1911), How the
Boys Fought the Indians (1912), A Christmas Accident (1912), Madame de
Mode (1912), Samuel Pickwick in Mr. Pickwick's Predicament (1912),
Billy Pearl in What Happened to Mary? (1912), Wood B. Weed (comedy
series, 1913â€"14), The Prime Minister in How They Got the Vote
(1913), Lo, the Poor Indians (1914), Waddy Wise in Her Country Cousin
(1915), Joseph Sedley in Vanity Fair (1915), Jim, a burglar in
Suspicious Characters (1915), Grimm in The Tailor's Bill (1915), Waddy
Rooney in Rooney the Bride (1915), Mr Orlinsky, Darya's father in The
Cossack Whip (1916), Pa Lane in The Matchmakers (1916), Angus Ban
Keillor in Kidnapped (1917), Sheriff Len Moody in Light in the
Darkness (1917), Dominick in The Little Chevalier (1917), Snowshoe in
Salt of the Earth (1917), Muggins, the King in The Royal Pauper (also
known as The Princess from the Poorhouse) (1917), Gunner Kregier in
Barnaby Lee (c1917) and White Mice (1926).In his later years Wadsworth
was a stage actor in New York where his wife Mabel (born 1883) worked
as a Fitter in a dress shop.William Wadsworth died aged 77 in June
1950 in Brooklyn in New York.
actor of the silent era best known for his roles in early Westerns,
playing the villain in What Happened to Mary? (1912), the first
Western film serial and for playing Samuel Pickwick in Mr Pickwick's
Predicament (1912), an early screen adaptation of The Pickwick
Papers.Wadsworth was born in Pigeon Cove in Massachusetts in 1874, the
son of William Wadsworth (born 1842) and Adelia K Leonard (born 1846).
Originally a theatrical producer, the chubby and prematurely bald
Wadsworth became an actor of the silent era in 1909 in Why Girls Leave
Home. Among the more than 60 films he made for the Edison
Manufacturing Company and others are The Daisy Cowboys (1911), How the
Boys Fought the Indians (1912), A Christmas Accident (1912), Madame de
Mode (1912), Samuel Pickwick in Mr. Pickwick's Predicament (1912),
Billy Pearl in What Happened to Mary? (1912), Wood B. Weed (comedy
series, 1913â€"14), The Prime Minister in How They Got the Vote
(1913), Lo, the Poor Indians (1914), Waddy Wise in Her Country Cousin
(1915), Joseph Sedley in Vanity Fair (1915), Jim, a burglar in
Suspicious Characters (1915), Grimm in The Tailor's Bill (1915), Waddy
Rooney in Rooney the Bride (1915), Mr Orlinsky, Darya's father in The
Cossack Whip (1916), Pa Lane in The Matchmakers (1916), Angus Ban
Keillor in Kidnapped (1917), Sheriff Len Moody in Light in the
Darkness (1917), Dominick in The Little Chevalier (1917), Snowshoe in
Salt of the Earth (1917), Muggins, the King in The Royal Pauper (also
known as The Princess from the Poorhouse) (1917), Gunner Kregier in
Barnaby Lee (c1917) and White Mice (1926).In his later years Wadsworth
was a stage actor in New York where his wife Mabel (born 1883) worked
as a Fitter in a dress shop.William Wadsworth died aged 77 in June
1950 in Brooklyn in New York.
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