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Showing posts with label child actor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child actor. Show all posts

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Ernie Morrison

Ernest Fredric "Ernie" Morrison (December 20, 1912 – July 24, 1989) was an American child actor who performed under the stage name "Sunshine Sammy". Morrison was the only black member of the East Side Kids, and was also an original Our Gang kid, a sidekick to Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard, a silent screen comedian, a vaudevillian, a dancer, and band leader.
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Philippe De Lacy

Philippe De Lacy a.k.a. Philippe DeLacy, (July 25, 1917 - July 29, 1995)  was a former silent film era child actor. Born during World War I, the already fatherless Philippe lost his mother and five siblings when a German shell devastated the family home. Only two days old at the time of tragedy, the boy was kept alive, but barely, in the basement of his grandmother's house. He was adopted by Mrs. Edith De Lacy. After the war ended, Mrs. De Lacy brought Philippe to America, where his stunning looks soon created opportunities for him as a model for magazine advertisements. His modeling assignments brought him to the attention of Hollywood, and he appeared in his first film in a bit part at the age of four. Phillipe's childhood story was used as the subject of a fictional children's book, "Little Philippe of Belgium", written by Madeline Brandeis as part of her 'Children of the World' series.
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Monday, September 3, 2012

Henkie Klein

Little Henkie Klein (sometimes written as Klyn or Kleinman) was a child actor in German and Dutch films of the silent era. He was born in 1921 in Amsterdam and was the son of film director Henk Kleinman.  Henkie had made his film debut as the Berlin street boy Bolleken in Goldjunge/Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (1925, Henk Kleinman). Both films are now presumed missing. (More information on Henkie Klein was not to be found on the net. If he is still alive, he would be now 86 or 87).

Source: flickrDutch postcard by B. Brouwer, Amsterdam. Photo: Bernard Eilers, Amsterdam. Collection: Egbert Barten