Will Stanton (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Will Stanton (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

William Sidney "Will" Stanton (September 18, 1885 â€" December 18,

1969) was an American character actor, whose career spanned the first

twenty-five years of the sound film era. Born in London, England,

Stanton broke into the film industry at the very tail end of the

silent film era in 1927, appearing in several film shorts for Hal

Roach Studios. He would debut in a feature film with a small role in

Raoul Walsh's 1928 silent film, Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria

Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, and Walsh. During the following 20 years he

would appear in another 70 films, mostly in small and supporting

roles.Notable films in which he appeared include: the 1933 version of

Alice in Wonderland, whose ensemble cast included Cary Grant, W.C.

Fields, Gary Cooper and Edward Everett Horton; the classic Mutiny on

the Bounty (1935), starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable; the 1936

film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's classic, Last of the

Mohicans, directed by George B. Seitz, and starring Randolph Scott;

The Prince and the Pauper (1937), starring Errol Flynn and Claude

Rains; Howard Hawks' 1941 classic, Sergeant York, with Gary Cooper;

and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz,

and starring Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, and George Sanders. His final

big screen appearance would be as a cab driver in the Spencer Tracy

and Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy, Adam's Rib, directed by George

Cukor. Stanton would make one last acting performance, appearing on an

episode of television's Schlitz Playhouse in 1954. Stanton died on

December 18, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, and was buried in Forest

Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.Per AFI database
Will Stanton (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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