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King Baggot (I) (1879–1948)

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Tall, burly star of the silent screen. Began on stage and started acting in films from 1911, under contract first with Imp, then Universal. Became extremely popular in heroic ( Ivanhoe) or evil ( Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) characterisations. Loved performing heavily disguised, playing all ten roles in Shadows... See more trivia »

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1947 Good News
Man at Coat Check Counter (uncredited)
 
1947 Merton of the Movies
Man in Audience (uncredited)
 
1947 My Brother Talks to Horses
Bank Employee (uncredited)
 
1946 The Secret Heart
Man at Graduation Ceremony (uncredited)
 
1946 Holiday in Mexico (uncredited)
 
1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
 
1945 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Barbershop Patron (uncredited)
 
1945 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Churchgoer (uncredited)
 
1945 Phantoms, Inc. (short)
Photo of Con Artist (uncredited)
 
1945 The Clock
Man in Subway (uncredited)
 
1944 Barbary Coast Gent
Goldtown Citizen (uncredited)
 
1943 Swing Fever
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
 
1943 Air Raid Wardens
Townsman at Meeting (uncredited)
 
1942 A Yank at Eton
Man on the Street (uncredited)
 
1942 Tish
Man on Street (uncredited)
 
1942 Jackass Mail
Old Miner (uncredited)
 
1942 Her Cardboard Lover
Police Officer in Courtroom (uncredited)
 
1942 Rio Rita
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
 
1942 Fingers at the Window
Psychiatrist at Lecture (uncredited)
 
1941 Honky Tonk
Townsman (uncredited)
 
1941 The Big Store
Store Employee (uncredited)
 
1941 Ziegfeld Girl
Man in Audience (uncredited)
 
1941 Come Live with Me
Doorman
 
1940 The Philadelphia Story
Extra as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
 
1940 I Take This Woman
Man in Subway (uncredited)
 
1939 Dancing Co-Ed
Man in Casting Office (uncredited)
 
1939 6,000 Enemies
Prisoner Charlie (uncredited)
 
1938 Opening Day (short)
Baseball Fan (uncredited)
 
1938 Boys Town
Derelict in Mission Next to Weasel (uncredited)
 
1938 Snow Gets in Your Eyes (short)
Department Store Customer (uncredited)
 
1937 A Night at the Movies (short)
Movie Patron (uncredited)
 
1937 Broadway Melody of 1938
Boardinghouse Resident (uncredited)
 
1937 The Emperor's Candlesticks
Customs Official (uncredited)
 
1937 A Day at the Races
Race Track Official Starter (uncredited)
 
1937 It May Happen to You (short)
Man in Hospital (uncredited)
 
1937 Parnell
Man in Office (uncredited)
 
1937 Torture Money (short)
False Accident Witness (uncredited)
 
1936 Mad Holiday
Film Director (uncredited)
 
1936 Sworn Enemy
Accident Witness (uncredited)
 
1936 The Devil-Doll
Detective Pierre (uncredited)
 
1936 San Francisco
Earthquake Extra (uncredited)
 
1936 We Went to College
Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
 
1936 The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Chemistry Professor (uncredited)
 
1935 A Night at the Opera
Dignitary (uncredited)
 
1935 Three Kids and a Queen
Druggist (uncredited)
 
1935 She Gets Her Man
Businessman (uncredited)
 
1935 Chinatown Squad
Patrol Wagon Guard (uncredited)
 
1935 The Call of the Savage
Dr. Pierce [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
 
1935 Mississippi
Gambler (uncredited)
 
1935 It Happened in New York
Policeman
 
1935 Night Life of the Gods
Lobby Extra (uncredited)
 
1935 Sweepstake Annie
Motion Picture Studio Executive (uncredited)
 
1935 A Notorious Gentleman
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
 
1934 I've Been Around
Doorman
 
1934 Father Brown, Detective (uncredited)
 
1934 Cheating Cheaters
Official (uncredited)
 
1934 Tailspin Tommy
Airplane Inspector [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
 
1934 Romance in the Rain
Milton McGillicuddy
 
1934 The Red Rider
Townsman (uncredited)
 
1934 The Love Captive
Cop (uncredited)
 
1934 The Black Cat
Cultist (uncredited)
 
1934 Beloved
Second Doctor
 
1933 Only Yesterday (uncredited)
 
1933 I Loved a Woman
Banker (uncredited)
 
1933 Skyway
Aggressive Carnival Troublemaker (uncredited)
 
1932 The Death Kiss
Al Payne (uncredited)
 
1932 Merry-Go-Round
Police Officer (uncredited)
 
1932 The Big Flash (short)
Hinkle - Daily News Editor
 
1932 Hello Trouble
Ranger Captain J.C. White (uncredited)
 
1932 What Price Hollywood?
Department Head (uncredited)
 
1932 Police Court
Henry Field, Movie Director
 
1932 Girl of the Rio
Maitre d'hotel, Purple Pigeon Cafe (uncredited)
 
1931 Scareheads
King Bailey, a Policeman
 
1931 Graft
Ship's Captain (uncredited)
 
1931 Sweepstakes
Mike - Weber's Trainer
 
1931 The Bad Sister
Policeman on Street (uncredited)
 
1930 Once a Gentleman
Van Warner
 
1930 Czar of Broadway
Dane Harper
 
1926 Lovey Mary (uncredited)
 
1921 The Butterfly Girl
H.H. Van Horn
 
1921 The Girl in the Taxi
Maj. Frederick Smith
 
1921 Snowy Baker
 
1920 The Forbidden Thing
Dave
 
1920 The Dwelling Place of Light
Brooks Insall
 
1920 Life's Twist
Jim Sargent
 
1920 The Cheater
Lord Asgarby
 
1920 The Thirtieth Piece of Silver
Tyler Cole
 
1919 The Hawk's Trail
Sheldon Steele/The Hawk
 
1919 The Man Who Stayed at Home
Christopher Brent
 
1918 Building for Democracy (short)
The Husband
 
1918 Kildare of Storm
Basil Kildare
 
1918 The Eagle's Eye
Harrison Grant
 
1918 I'll Fix It (short)
 
1917 Undoing Evil (short)
 
1917 The Boonton Affair (short)
Jack Walton
 
1916 The Voice Upstairs (short)
 
1916 Are You an Elk? (short)
Stewart King
 
1916 The Lie Sublime (short)
Julian Ormond
 
1916 The Chance Market (short)
John Marmaduke/Jim Fowler
 
1916 The Silent Stranger (short)
The Silent Stranger
 
1916 The Captain of the Typhoon (short)
Angus Steele
 
1916 The Man Across the Street (short)
John Warren/Dr. Carl
 
1916 The Man from Nowhere
James Herron
 
1916 Jim Slocum No. 46393 (short)
Jim Slocum
 
1916 Half a Rogue
Richard Warrington
 
1916 Won with a Make-Up (short)
William King
 
1916 The Haunted Bell (short)
John Lane
 
1916 Patterson of the News (short)
Jack Patterson
 
1916 The Hoax House (short)
Frank King
 
1916 The Soul Man (short)
 
1916 The Law of Life (short)
Robert McKenzie
 
1915 Almost a Papa (short)
Tom Conley
 
1915 Man or Money? (short)
Donald Britt
 
1915/II The Reward (short)
Jack Hutchinson
 
1915 An All Around Mistake (short)
John Goody
 
1915 His Home Coming (short)
Will Move
 
1915 The Suburban
Donald Gordon
 
1915 Crime's Triangle (short)
John Small
 
1915 The Only Child (short)
Papa
 
1915 The New Jitney in Town (short)
Drake, the Salesman
 
1915 His New Automobile (short)
King Drake
 
1915 The Marble Heart
Raphael/Phidias
 
1915 Mismated (short)
The Shoe Clerk
 
1915 A Strange Disappearance (short)
Andrew Blake
 
1915/I A Life in the Balance (short)
Dr. Savage
 
1915/II Fifty-Fifty (short)
David Briggs
 
1915 The Corsican Brothers (short)
Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi
 
1915 Tony (short)
Tony
 
1915 At the Banquet Table (short)
Sheerl Jones
 
1915 The Streets of Make Believe (short)
Bert Wall
 
1915 The City of Terrible Night (short)
Walter Herron
 
1915/I One Night (short)
The Crook
 
1915 The Five Pound Note (short)
Lord Avon Ledgard
 
1915/II Pressing His Suit (short)
 
1915 An Oriental Romance (short)
Hop Kung
 
1915 The Story the Silk Hats Told (short)
All Seven Roles
 
1915 The Millionaire Engineer (short)
Daniel Spencer
 
1915 Three Times and Out (short)
Jack
 
1914 The Mill Stream (short)
Jack Thornby
 
1914 Human Hearts (short)
Tom Logan
 
1914 The Treasure Train (short)
John Armstrong
 
1914 The Turn of the Tide (short)
Tom Walters
 
1914/II Shadows (short)
10 characterizations
 
1914 The Man Who Was Misunderstood (short)
Ned Jackson
 
1914 The Silent Valley (short)
 
1914 Jim Webb, Senator (short)
Jim Webb
 
1914 One Best Bet (short)
Jack
 
1914 Across the Atlantic (short)
Wilbur Norton
 
1914 A Mexican Warrior (short)
The Warrior
 
1914 Notoriety (short)
King, the Actor
 
1914 The Baited Trap (short)
Dennis
 
1914 The Blood Test (short)
Walter Johnson
 
1914 King the Detective in the Marine Mystery (short)
King, the Detective
 
1914 The Flaming Diagram (short)
Erickson, Jr.
 
1914 The Touch of a Child (short)
Paul Vivian
 
1914 The Box Couch (short)
The Husband
 
1914 King the Detective in Formula 879 (short)
Cecil Disney/King - the Detective
 
1914 The Militant (short)
Sir Arthur Braham
 
1914 The Old Guard
 
1913 King the Detective in the Jarvis Case (short)
King, the Detective
 
1913 The Actor's Christmas (short)
The Actor
 
1913 The Return of Tony (short)
Tony
 
1913 Love vs. Law (short)
Jack
 
1913 The Child Stealers of Paris (short)
Banker
 
1913 The Anarchist (short)
The Anarchist
 
1913 The Stranger (short)
Elbert Havens
 
1913 The Old Melody (short)
Silas Grubb
 
1913 The Comedian's Mask (short)
The Comedian
 
1913 The Heart That Sees (short)
The Optician
 
1913 The Rise of Officer 174 (short)
Officer 174
 
1913 The Leader of His Flock (short)
The Minister
 
1913/I The Wanderer (short)
The Shepherd
 
1913 To Reno and Back (short)
The Husband
 
1913 King Danforth Retires (short)
King Danforth
 
1913 Dr. Bunion (short)
Dr. Bunion
 
1913 Gold Is Not All (short)
Karl - the Composer
 
1913 She Slept Through It All (short)
Mr. Newlywed
 
1913 The Bearer of Burdens (short)
John Strong
 
1912 The World Weary Man (short)
A Young Millionaire Bachelor
 
1912 Through Shadowed Vales (short)
Roy Erlynne
 
1912 Mamma's Boy (short)
 
1912 Officer One Seven Four (short)
Officer 174
 
1912 A Strange Case (short)
Gerald Vaughn
 
1912 John Sterling, Alderman (short)
John Sterling
 
1912 King the Detective and the Smugglers (short)
King the Detective
 
1912 The Bridal Room (short)
Tom Walsh
 
1912 The Parson and the Moonshiner (short)
The Parson
 
1912 The Millionaire Cop (short)
Jack Gardner
 
1912 Human Hearts (short)
Tom Logan
 
1912 A Happy Family (short)
1st Husband
 
1912/I The Castaway (short)
Joseph Lee, the Castaway
 
1912 In Old Tennessee (short)
Jim Howard
 
1912 Blood Is Thicker Than Water (short)
Officer of the Northwest Mounted Police
 
1912 Winning the Latonia Derby (short)
Howard Clews
 
1912 Caught in a Flash (short)
Jack Gayboy
 
1912 A Child's Influence (short)
Godfrey Clark
 
1912/I His Other Self (short)
The Lover and His Other Self
 
1912/I The Schemers (short)
Arthur Dennison
 
1912 Let No Man Put Asunder (short)
John Stevens - The Good Man
 
1912 The Breakdown (short)
Huntley Sharpe/Jim Simpkins
 
1912 Up Against It (short)
Amos Bentley
 
1912 The Peril (short)
Lt. Pond
 
1912 A Cave Man Wooing (short)
George - the 'Sissy' Hero
 
1912/II The Loan Shark (short)
Dr. Fenton
 
1912 Tempted But True (short)
John Prentiss - a Blacksmith
 
1912 The Romance of an Old Maid (short)
Frank Rogers - a Widower
 
1912 The Man from the West (short)
Steve Jackson - the Man from the West
 
1912 Shamus O'Brien (short)
Shamus O'Brien
 
1912 Far from the Beaten Track (short)
Nat Simms - a Trapper
 
1912 The Immigrant's Violin (short)
Albert Radley
 
1912 The Lie (short)
Captain Robert Evans
 
1912 A Modern Highwayman (short)
Noah Prescott
 
1912 The Tables Turned (short)
Mr. Despard
 
1912/I Through the Flames (short)
John Allen
 
1912 The Power of Conscience (short)
Eric Masters
 
1912/I After Many Years (short)
Harry Chilton
 
1912 The Dawn of Conscience (short)
 
1912 The Winning Miss (short)
 
1912 The Trinity (short)
Heinrich - the Young Painter
 
1911 A Lesson to Husbands (short)
Jack Armstrong
 
1911 A Pair of Gloves (short)
Jim Robertson
 
1911 The Girl and the Half-Back (short)
Victor Fisher
 
1911 Tony and the Stork (short)
Tony
 
1911 Over the Hills (short)
Wayne Holland
 
1911 Executive Clemency (short)
Dan Fuller
 
1911/II The Wife's Awakening (short)
Enoch Harrington
 
1911/II Waiting at the Church (short)
Harry Graham - the Bridegroom
 
1911 King, the Detective (short)
King - the Detective
 
1911 The Better Way (short)
Louis Perry - a Reformed Crook
 
1911 Through the Air (short)
Jack Baldwin
 
1911 The Rose's Story (short)
Gerald Kinney
 
1911 By Registered Mail (short)
Amos Grantley - the Father
 
1911 The Brothers (short)
Patrick Curran
 
1911 The Haunted House (short)
 
1911 The Battle of the Wills (short)
Dr. Roy Crawford
 
1911 The Call of the Song (short)
Hugh Norton
 
1911 At a Quarter of Two (short)
Dan Nolan - the Burglar
 
1911 For the Queen's Honor (short)
The King
 
1911 In the Sultan's Garden (short)
Lt. Robins
 
1911 The Piece of String (short)
Anton Paxton
 
1911 Back to the Soil (short)
 
1911 The Minor Chord (short)
Carl Denmitz - a Poor Violinist
 
1911 The Master and the Man (short)
Basil King - the Master
 
1911 The Fair Dentist (short)
Dental Patient
 
1911/I The Temptress (short)
Gilbert Irving
 
1911 Second Sight (short)
Tom Moorland
 
1911 Where There's Life, There's Hope (short)
Alfred King
 
1911 The Lover's Signal (short)
Raymond Williams
 
1911 Sweet Memories (short)
Edward Jackson
 
1911 The Penniless Prince (short)
Prince Gustave
 
1911 The Secret of the Palm (short)
Cecil Abbott
 
1911 Tracked (short)
Roger Densmore
 
1911 Pictureland (short)
Pablo
 
1911 The Mirror (short)
 
1911 At the Duke's Command (short)
Edward, the Duke's Nephew
 
1911 An Imaginary Elopement (short)
Guy Judson
 
1911 Phone 1707 Chester (short)
Ralph Vincent
 
1911 Science (short)
Dr. Crawford
 
1910 Unreasonable Jealousy (short)
The Doctor
 
1910 The Aspirations of Gerald and Percy (short)
Gerald
 
1910 The Double (short)
Robert King/Joseph Dansby
 
1910 The Count of Montebello (short)
Percy
 
1910 All the World's a Stage (short)
 
1910 Pressed Roses (short)
 
1910 Debt (short)
 
1910 The Widow (short)
 
1910 The Taming of Jane (short)
 
1910 Among the Roses (short)
 
1910 Once Upon a Time (short)
 
1910 The Irony of Fate (short)
 
1910 Bear Ye One Another's Burdens (short)
George Rand
 
1910 The Mistake (short)
 
1910 Old Heads and Young Hearts (short)
 
1910 The Call of the Circus (short)
 
1910 A Game for Two (short)
Clark, the Best Friend
 
1910 A Self-Made Hero (short)
 
1910 A Discontented Woman (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 A Reno Romance (short)
 
1910 The Doctor's Perfidy (short)
 
1910 Two Men (short)
The Tenderfoot
 
1910 The New Shawl (short)
 
1910 The Maelstrom (short)
 
1910 The Rosary (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 His Second Wife (short)
 
1910 The Miser's Daughter (short)
 
1910 Transfusion (short)
 
1910 The Stage Note (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 His Sick Friend (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 The Time-Lock Safe (short)
 
1910 The Broken Oath (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 Mother Love (short)
The Husband (unconfirmed)
 
1910 The Governor's Pardon (short)
The Man (unconfirmed)
 
1910 Jane and the Stranger (short)
The Stranger
 
1910 The Blind Man's Tact (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 Justice in the Far North (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 The Coquette's Suitors (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910/II Never Again (short)
 
1910 The Tide of Fortune (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 The Right of Love (short)
 
1910 The Winning Punch (short)
 
1909 The Awakening of Bess (short)
 
1909 Love's Stratagem (short)
The Boy
 
Show ShowDirector (45 titles)
1926 Lovey Mary
 
1925 Tumbleweeds (as King Baggott)
 
1925 The Home Maker
 
1925 Raffles
 
1924 The Tornado
 
1924 The Gaiety Girl
 
1923 Crossed Wires
 
1923 Gossip
 
1923 The Love Letter
 
1922 Human Hearts
 
1922 Kissed
 
1921 Nobody's Fool
 
1921 Luring Lips
 
1921 Cheated Love
 
1918 I'll Fix It (short)
 
1917 The Boonton Affair (short)
 
1916 The Lie Sublime (short)
 
1916 The Chance Market (short)
 
1916 The Silent Stranger (short)
 
1915 Crime's Triangle (short)
 
1914 Human Hearts (short)
 
1914 The Silent Valley (short)
 
1914 Jim Webb, Senator (short)
 
1914 The Blood Test (short)
 
1913 The Return of Tony (short)
 
1912/I His Other Self (short)
 
1912 The Lie (short)
 
1912 The Power of Conscience (short)
 
Show ShowWriter (18 titles)
1931 Sporting Chance (story)
 
1923 The Darling of New York (story)
 
1923 Crossed Wires (story)
 
1918 I'll Fix It (short) (writer)
 
1917 The Boonton Affair (short) (scenario)
 
1916 Are You an Elk? (short) (scenario)
 
1916 The Chance Market (short) (scenario)
 
1915 Crime's Triangle (short)
 
1915 The Only Child (short) (story)
 
1915 The New Jitney in Town (short) (story)
 
1914 Jim Webb, Senator (short) (scenario)
 
1914 King the Detective in the Marine Mystery (short) (scenario)
 
1913 The Return of Tony (short) (scenario)
 
1913 The Wizard of the Jungle (short) (scenario)
 
1912 John Sterling, Alderman (short) (scenario)
 
1912 In Old Tennessee (short) (scenario)
 
1912 The Breakdown (short) (story)
 
1911 The Rose's Story (short) (scenario)
 
Show ShowProducer (2 titles)
1925 The Home Maker (producer)
 
1913 Traffic in Souls (executive producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (5 titles)
1923 The Thrill Chaser
Himself
 
1923 Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 3 (documentary short)
Himself
 
1916 His Own Story (short)
Himself - King Baggot
 
1914/I The Universal Boy (short)
Himself
 
1914 The Great Universal Mystery (documentary short)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2011 Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Universal Horror (TV documentary)
 

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(1906). Stage Play: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Comedy (revival). Written by Anne Crawford Flexner. New York Theatre: 17 Sep 1906- Oct 1906 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: King Baggot (as "Mr. Bob"), Harry Buchanan (as "Mr. Eichorn"), Argyle Campbell (as "Billy Wiggs")... See more »

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Alternate Names:

King Baggott

Height:

6' (1.83 m)
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Trivia:

Tall, burly star of the silent screen. Began on stage and started acting in films from 1911, under contract first with Imp, then Universal. Became extremely popular in heroic ( Ivanhoe) or evil ( Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) characterisations. Loved performing heavily disguised, playing all ten roles in Shadows... See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio