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Samuel Alfred De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953)
was a Canadian actor. He was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he trained to be
a dentist.
He married Annie McDonnell in 1904. Their daughter,
Clementine Bell, was born in 1906. Annie died in 1909, probably in childbirth
with another daughter, Olive. In 1910, Samuel practiced dentistry and he and
Clementine were living in Providence, Rhode Island along with his older sister
(also named Clementine) and her 14 year old son, Jerome Fauchy.
Sam married British actress Ada Fuller Golden and became a
step-father to her three children. His older brother Joe went into the
fledgling movie business and Sam decided to also give it a try. He traveled to
New York City and in 1912 he appeared in his first motion picture.
At first he played standard secondary characters but when
fellow Canadian Mary Pickford set up her own studio with her husband Douglas
Fairbanks, he joined them. He portrayed the villainous Prince John in
Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood. Afterward, he began to specialize in villainous
roles. He was the uncle of successful cinematographer Robert De Grasse. He
lived on the west coast until his death in Hollywood. He is interred in the
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Birth Name
Samuel Alfred de Grasse
Born
Sunday, 20 June 1875
Died
Sunday, 29 November 1953
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Captain of the Guard | Bazin | 1930 |
Wall Street | John Willard | 1929 |
The Last Performance | District Attorney | 1929 |
Silks and Saddles | William Morrissey | 1929 |
The Racket | District Attorney Welch | 1928 |
Dog Law | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1928 |
Our Dancing Daughters | Freddie's Father | 1928 |
The Man Who Laughs | King James II | 1928 |
The Wreck of the Hesperus | Capt. David Slocum | 1927 |
The Country Doctor | Ira Harding | 1927 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
---|
Captain of the Guard | Bazin | 1930 |
Wall Street | John Willard | 1929 |
The Last Performance | District Attorney | 1929 |
Silks and Saddles | William Morrissey | 1929 |
The Racket | District Attorney Welch | 1928 |
Dog Law | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1928 |
Our Dancing Daughters | Freddie's Father | 1928 |
The Man Who Laughs | King James II | 1928 |
The Wreck of the Hesperus | Capt. David Slocum | 1927 |
The Country Doctor | Ira Harding | 1927 |
The Fighting Eagle | Talleyrand | 1927 |
Captain Salvation | Peter Campbell | 1927 |
The King of Kings | Pharisee | 1927 |
When a Man Loves | Comte Guillot de Morfontaine | 1927 |
Love's Blindness | Benjamin Levy | 1926 |
The Eagle of the Sea | Col. Lestron / Colonel Lestron | 1926 |
Broken Hearts of Hollywood | Defense Attorney | 1926 |
Her Second Chance | Beachey | 1926 |
The Black Pirate | Pirate Lieutenant | 1926 |
Mike | Brush | 1926 |
Heir-Loons | 1925 | |
One Year to Live | Dr. Lucien La Pierre | 1925 |
The Mansion of Aching Hearts | Martin Craig | 1925 |
On the Threshold | Daniel Masters | 1925 |
A Self-Made Failure | Cyrus Cruikshank | 1924 |
Pagan Passions | Frank Langley | 1924 |
Painted People | Henry Parrish | 1924 |
The Courtship of Myles Standish | John Carver | 1923 |
Tiger Rose | Dr. Cusick | 1923 |
In the Palace of the King | King Philip II | 1923 |
The Dancer of the Nile | Pasheri | 1923 |
A Prince of a King | Duke Roberto | 1923 |
The Spoilers | Judge Stillman | 1923 |
Robin Hood | Prince John | 1922 |
A Wife's Awakening | George Otis | 1921 |
The Cheater Reformed | Thomas Edinburgh | 1921 |
Unseen Forces | Capt. Stanley / Captain Stanley | 1920 |
The Little Grey Mouse | John Cumberland | 1920 |
The Skywayman | Dr. Wayne Leveridge | 1920 |
The Devil's Passkey | Warren Goodwright | 1920 |
Blind Husbands | Dr. Armstrong / The Husband - Dr. Robert Armstrong | 1919 |
Heart o' the Hills | Steve Honeycutt | 1919 |
The Mother and the Law | Arthur Jenkins | 1919 |
The Exquisite Thief | Shaver Michael | 1919 |
The Silk-Lined Burglar | Boston Blackie | 1919 |
Sis Hopkins | Vibert | 1919 |
The Hope Chest | Ballantyne, Sr. | 1918 |
A Law Unto Herself | Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse) / Kurt Von Klassner | 1918 |
A Woman's Fool | Undetermined Role | 1918 |
The Mortgaged Wife | Meyer | 1918 |
The Guilt of Silence | Gambler Joe | 1918 |
Six-Shooter Andy | Tom Slade | 1918 |
The Scarlet Car | Ernest Peabody | 1917 |
The Winged Mystery | Mortimer Eddington | 1917 |
Wild and Woolly | Steve Shelby - Indian Agent / Steve Shelby | 1917 |
Madame Bo-Peep | Jose Alvarez | 1917 |
An Old Fashioned Young Man | Harold T. King | 1917 |
Her Official Fathers | Ethan Dexter | 1917 |
Jim Bludso | Ben Merrill | 1917 |
Children of the Feud | Dr. Richard Cavanagh | 1916 |
Intolerance | Arthur Jenkins / Arthur Jenkins (Modern Story) | 1916 |
Diane of the Follies | Phillips Christy | 1916 |
The Half-Breed | Sheriff Dunn | 1916 |
An Innocent Magdalene | Forbes Stewart | 1916 |
The Good Bad-Man | Bud Frazer / The Wolf | 1916 |
Martyrs of the Alamo | Silent Smith | 1915 |
A Child of God | Jim MacPherson | 1915 |
A Man and His Mate | Choo | 1915 |
The Birth of a Nation | Senator Charles Sumner / Charles Sumner | 1915 |