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Paul Scardon (6 May 1874 – 17 January 1954) was an actor, a producer, and a director on both Australian and New York stages.
When he was 15, Scardon debuted on stage as a contortionist in vaudeville. He progressed from that to pantomime and then joined a troupe headed by J. C. Williamson, touring New Zealand and Australia for five years. In 1905, he joined a company headed by Nance O'Neil, and that group's tour brought him to the United States.
Scardon's Broadway credits include Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh (1911), Becky Sharp (1911), The Green Cockatoo (1910), Hannele (1910), The Debtors (1909), Agnes(1908), Our American Cousin (1908), and Brigadier Gerard (1906).
Scardon went to Hollywood in 1910. In motion pictures, he worked for Majestic Pictures, Reliance-Majestic Studios and Vitagraph Studios. He directed Blanche Sweet in Unwilling Husband, Bessie Barriscale in some of her most successful productions, and most of the melodramas which starred his wife, actress Betty Blythe. Retiring when sound films came in, Scardon returned to films as an actor in the 1940s, playing bit roles until he retired from the film industry in 1948.
Personal life and death
At the time of his death, Scardon was married to actress Betty Blythe. On January 18, 1954, Scardon died of a heart attack in Fontana, California, at age 79.
Filmography
= Actor
== Director
=References
External links
Paul Scardon at IMDb
1923 passport photo of Paul and wife Betty(courtesy Puzzlemaster, flickr.com)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The Stolen Treaty (film 1917)
- The Green God (film)
- The Maelstrom
- The Day After (film 1909)
- The Son of Davy Crockett
- To Save Her Soul
- Betty Blythe
- Paul Scardon
- Enemy (disambiguation)
- List of American films of 1919
- List of American films of 1918
- Rudyard Kipling
- List of American films of 1917
- List of American films of 1916
- List of American films of 1922
- List of burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
- List of American films of 1920
