Earl O. Schenck (13 May 1889 â€" c. 1962) was an American film actor.
He appeared in 41 films between 1916 and 1946.After playing leading
roles on Broadway and in Hollywood during the Silent era opposite such
stars as Mae Murray, Mae Marsh, Norma Talmadge, Alia Nazimova and
Marion Davies, Schenck developed "Klieg light eyes". Threatened with
total blindness, he interrupted a distinguished stage career and went
to Hawaii to rest.In the South Seas he found a new career as an
explorer and ethnologist. He secured a roving commission from the
Bishop Museum in Honolulu, the leading museum in the world in
Polynesian research, to make miniatures and gather artifacts of
various Polynesian Islands and spent fourteen years traveling from
island to island. During this time, Schenck also contributed to the
National Geographic and other magazines.Returning to his homeland
after twenty years of wandering, Schenck won success in still another
field as a lecturer on the South Seas and, during the war, served the
U.S. Navy Department in planning bases in the Southwest Pacific. For
nine months, he also worked with the U.S. Maritime Commission as a
government speaker in shipyards and factories to speed up production.
He appeared in 41 films between 1916 and 1946.After playing leading
roles on Broadway and in Hollywood during the Silent era opposite such
stars as Mae Murray, Mae Marsh, Norma Talmadge, Alia Nazimova and
Marion Davies, Schenck developed "Klieg light eyes". Threatened with
total blindness, he interrupted a distinguished stage career and went
to Hawaii to rest.In the South Seas he found a new career as an
explorer and ethnologist. He secured a roving commission from the
Bishop Museum in Honolulu, the leading museum in the world in
Polynesian research, to make miniatures and gather artifacts of
various Polynesian Islands and spent fourteen years traveling from
island to island. During this time, Schenck also contributed to the
National Geographic and other magazines.Returning to his homeland
after twenty years of wandering, Schenck won success in still another
field as a lecturer on the South Seas and, during the war, served the
U.S. Navy Department in planning bases in the Southwest Pacific. For
nine months, he also worked with the U.S. Maritime Commission as a
government speaker in shipyards and factories to speed up production.
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