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Name
  
Arthur Donaldson


Role
  
Actor

Arthur Donaldson (actor)

Died
  
September 28, 1955, Long Island, New York, United States

Movies
  
A Lad from Old Ireland, The Ghost of Twisted Oaks

Similar People
  
Gene Gauntier, Sidney Olcott, J Searle Dawley, Joseph Henabery, Daniel Frohman

Arthur Donaldson (5 April 1869 – 28 September 1955), was a Swedish-American actor. He appeared in 71 films between 1910 and 1934.

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Biography

Donaldson was born in Norsholm, Sweden but moved to the United States at the age of fourteen and quickly became a prolific actor on stage. He made his film debut in 1910. During the early 1910s he returned briefly to Sweden, appearing in operettas at Oscarsteatern and making two Swedish films (one as director) before going back to America. He also directed Domen (1924), a Swedish-language short film, a version of Retribution, in the DeForest Phonofilm process.

He died in Long Island, New York, USA.

Partial filmography

  • A Lad from Old Ireland (1910)
  • The Colleen Bawn (1911)
  • The Day of Days (1914)
  • The Moth and the Flame (1915)
  • Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917)
  • The Undercurrent (1919)
  • A Modern Salome (1920)
  • The Silver Lining (1921)
  • The Passionate Pilgrim (1921)
  • Find the Woman (1922)
  • When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)
  • Yolanda (1924)
  • America (1924)
  • The Bandolero (1924)
  • The Swan (1925)
  • Fifty-Fifty (1925)
  • Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
  • References

    Arthur Donaldson (actor) Wikipedia