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- Category: Motion pictures
- Star rank: 1767
- Address:
1500 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
- GPS location:
34.098441, -118.326519
Mack Swain
Biography
With Charlie Chaplin (L) in Gold Rush
Source: www.doctormacro1.com
Mack Swain (February 16, 1876 – August 25, 1935) was an American actor and vaudevillian, prolific throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. Born Moroni Swain to Robert Henry Swain and Mary Ingeborg Jensen in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked in vaudeville before starting in silent film at Keystone Studios under Mack Sennett. While with Keystone, he was teamed up with Chester Conklin to make a series of comedy films. With Swain as “Ambrose” and Conklin as the grand mustachioed “Walrus”, they performed these roles in several films including “The Battle of Ambrose and Walrus” and “Love, Speed and Thrills,” both made in 1915. Besides these “Ambrose & Walrus” comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, twenty-six all told. In 1921, Swain began working with Charlie Chaplin at First National, appearing in “The Idle Class”, “Pay Day” and “The Pilgrim”. Swain is also remembered for his role as Big Jim McKay in the 1925 film The Gold Rush, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin
Fact file
- Born: February 16, 1876 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Died: August 25, 1935 (aged 59) Tacoma, Washington, USA
- Occupation: Actor, vaudevillian
- Spouse: Cora Claire King (1880-?)
Read more about Mack Swain at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Vine St, east side, between Sunset and Selma
Nearby you will also find Joan Caulfield, Fibber McGee & Molly, Capt. Kangaroo Bob Keeshan, Norma Talmadge, and many others.