Occupation Actor Years active 1914 - 1930 | Name Sam Grasse Role Actor | |
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Died November 29, 1953, Hollywood, California, United States Spouse Annie McDonnell (m. 1904–1909) Children Clementine Bell, Olive de Grasse Parents Ellen Comeaux, Lange DeGrasse Movies Robin Hood, Blind Husbands, The Black Pirate, Intolerance, The Man Who Laughs Similar People Joseph De Grasse, Douglas Fairbanks, Paul Leni, Allan Dwan, Elmer Clifton | ||
Samuel Alfred De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor.
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Biography
De Grasse was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and 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 was practicing 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. Mary Pickford named him as one of her favorite stars. 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.
Filmography
Actor
1930
Captain of the Guard as
Bazin
1929
Wall Street as
John Willard
1929
The Last Performance as
District Attorney
1929
Silks and Saddles as
William Morrissey
1928
The Farmer's Daughter (uncredited)
1928
Dog Law as
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1928
Our Dancing Daughters as
Freddie's Father (as Sam de Grasse)
1928
The Racket as
District Attorney Welch (as Sam DeGrasse)
1928
Honor Bound as
Blood Keller
1928
The Man Who Laughs as
King James II (as Sam DeGrasse)
1927
The Wreck of the Hesperus as
Capt. David Slocum
1927
The Country Doctor as
Ira Harding
1927
The Fighting Eagle as
Talleyrand
1927
Captain Salvation as
Peter Campbell (as Sam de Grasse)
1927
The King of Kings as
Pharisee
1927
When a Man Loves as
Comte Guillot de Morfontaine
1926
Love's Blindness as
Benjamin Levy
1926
The Eagle of the Sea as
Col. Lestron
1926
Broken Hearts of Hollywood as
Defense Attorney
1926
Her Second Chance as
Beachey
1926
The Black Pirate as
Pirate Lieutenant (as Mr. Sam de Grasse)
1926
Mike as
Brush
1925
Sally, Irene and Mary as
Officer O'Dare
1925
Heir-Loons
1925
Sun-Up as
Sheriff Weeks
1925
One Year to Live as
Dr. Lucien La Pierre
1925
The Mansion of Aching Hearts as
Martin Craig
1925
On the Threshold as
Daniel Masters
1924
The Virgin as
Ricardo Ruiz
1924
A Self-Made Failure as
Cyrus Cruikshank
1924
Pagan Passions as
Frank Langley
1924
Painted People as
Henry Parrish
1923
The Courtship of Myles Standish as
John Carver
1923
Tiger Rose as
Dr. Cusick
1923
In the Palace of the King as
King Philip II
1923
A Prince of a King as
Duke Roberto
1923
The Dancer of the Nile as
Pasheri
1923
The Spoilers as
Judge Stillman
1923
Circus Days as
Lord
1923
Slippy McGee as
Father De Rance
1922
Forsaking All Others as
Dr. Mason
1922
Robin Hood as
Prince John (as Sam de Grasse)
1921
A Wife's Awakening as
George Otis
1921
Courage as
Stephan Blackmoore
1921
The Cheater Reformed as
Thomas Edinburgh
1920
The Broken Gate as
'Hod' Brooks
1920
Unseen Forces as
Captain Stanley (as Sam de Grasse)
1920
The Little Grey Mouse as
John Cumberland
1920
The Skywayman as
Dr. Wayne Leveridge
1920
The Devil's Passkey as
Warren Goodwright
1920
Moon Madness as
Adrien
1920
Uncharted Channels as
Nicholas Schonnn
1919
Heart o' the Hills as
Steve Honeycutt
1919
Blind Husbands as
The Husband - Dr. Robert Armstrong
1919
The Exquisite Thief as
Shaver Michael
1919
The Silk-Lined Burglar as
Boston Blackie
1919
Sis Hopkins as
Vibert
1918
The Hope Chest as
Ballantyne, Sr.
1918
The Narrow Path as
Malcolm Dion
1918
A Law Unto Herself as
Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)
1918
A Woman's Fool as
Undetermined Role
1918
Winner Takes All as
Mark Thorne
1918
Smashing Through as
Earl Foster
1918
The Mortgaged Wife as
Meyer
1918
The Guilt of Silence as
Gambler Joe
1918
Brace Up as
National Jim
1918
Six-Shooter Andy as
Tom Slade
1917
The Scarlet Car as
Ernest Peabody
1917
The Winged Mystery as
Mortimer Eddington
1917
Anything Once as
Herbert Wendling
1917
The Empty Gun (Short) as
Jim
1917
Wild and Woolly as
Steve Shelby - Indian Agent (as Sam de Grasse)
1917
Madame Bo-Peep as
Jose Alvarez
1917
An Old Fashioned Young Man as
Harold T. King
1917
Her Official Fathers as
Ethan Dexter
1917
Jim Bludso as
Ben Merrill
1916
Children of the Feud as
Dr. Richard Cavanagh
1916
Diane of the Follies as
Phillips Christy
1916
Intolerance as
Arthur Jenkins
1916
The Half-Breed as
Sheriff Dunn
1916
An Innocent Magdalene as
Forbes Stewart
1916
The Good Bad-Man as
The Wolf / Bud Frazer
1916
Acquitted as
Ira Wolcott
1916
The Price of Power as
James Garwood
1916
The She-Devil (Short)
1915
Cross Currents as
Silas Randolph
1915
Martyrs of the Alamo as
Silent Smith
1915
The Fatal Hour (Short) as
Detective
1915
Tangled Paths (Short) as
Bert Rand
1915
In Old Mexico (Short) as
Juan
1915
The Decoy (Short)
1915
11:30 P.M. (Short) as
The Detective
1915
A Child of God as
Jim MacPherson
1915
A Man and His Mate as
Choo
1915
The Birth of a Nation as
Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
1915
Heart Beats (Short) as
Chief of Detectives Lee
1914
The Beat of the Year (Short) as
Sam Greening
1914
Who Shot Bud Walton? (Short) as
Sheriff Lafe Johnson
1914
The Kaffir's Skull (Short) as
Healey
1914
A Woman Scorned (Short) as
The Detective
1914
Detective Burton's Triumph (Short)
1914
A Blotted Page (Short) as
Martha's Husband
1914
The Tardy Cannon Ball (Short) as
Floss
1914
The Badge of Office (Short) as
The New Sheriff
1914
The Runaway Freight (Short) as
Red - a Yeggman
1914
Broken Nose Bailey (Short) as
Detective Barton
1914
Turned Back (Short) as
George Cantor
1914
Through the Dark (Short) as
James - Anne's Husband
1914
The Inner Conscience (Short)
1914
The Bank Burglar's Fate (Short) as
The Detective
1914
On the Border (Short) as
Pablo
1914
The Gunman (Short) as
Bass - the Gunman
1914
Blue Pete's Escape (Short) as
Detective Burton aka Blue Pete
1914
The Burden (Short) as
Will - Mary's Brother
1914
The Peach Brand (Short) as
Paul Leighton
1914
The Horse Wrangler (Short) as
Sid Suddath
1914
The Stolen Radium (Short)
1914
A Diamond in the Rough (Short)
1914
Texas Bill's Last Ride (Short) as
Texas Bill
Archive Footage
2014
Intolerance, or Best Places in the World Are Places Where Human Left No Traces (Short)
1919
The Mother and the Law as
Arthur Jenkins
References
Sam De Grasse Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA