- Born
- Died
- Birth nameCharles John Conklin
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Heinie Conklin was born on July 16, 1886 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Hard Boiled (1926), Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927) and Uncle Tom Without a Cabin (1919). He was married to Irene Blake. He died on July 30, 1959 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseIrene Blake(November 14, 1913 - ?) (3 children)
- He appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners, the first two of which were in consecutive years: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Cimarron (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). He was also in seven other Best Picture nominees: She Done Him Wrong (1933), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), Les Misérables (1935), Three Smart Girls (1936), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and The Pride of the Yankees (1942).
- Regular in Mack Sennett comedies.
- Appeared in his own comic strip in the comic "Film Fun" (UK).
- His trademark was a long, wispy Chinese-style moustache, curled at the ends. Conklin worked at Keystone from 1915 and with Sennett from the late 1910's.
- Father of Charles, Thelma and Clifford
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