Arthur Lake (actor)
Arthur Lake ( born April 17, 1905 in Corbin, Kentucky; † January 9, 1987 in Indian Wells, California; actually Arthur Silver Lake ) was an American film actor.
Life
Lake Arthur was born in 1905 when Arthur Silver Lake in Kentucky. His father Arthur and uncle were acrobats in the circus and went as " The Flying Silver Lakes " in the United States on tour. When Lake was three years old, he joined henceforth with his parents and his sister Florence in vaudeville theaters in the south and southwestern United States. His mother Edith ( nee Goodwin ), an actress, him and Florence finally brought to Hollywood, where Lake in Jack and the Beanstalk (1917 ) received his first role in the film with twelve years. This was followed by roles in several silent films, which are often included Western.
Mid-1920s, he signed a contract with Universal Pictures, where you shortened his actual last name to Lake as the studio head Carl Laemmle was that Silver Lake sounded too Jewish. End of the decade moved to Lake RKO Pictures. He is best known, however, only in 1938 by the appearance of Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie film series from Columbia Pictures, which was based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. The actress Penny Singleton who played the title role, he was seen from 1938 to 1950 in 28 episodes of the film series. From 1939 there was also an eponymous radio play, their roles were played for the Lake and Singleton on the radio. In the 1950s Lake was in a short-lived Blondie television series one more time as Dagwood Bumstead used. The series proved to be a flop, especially not Penny Singleton, but Pamela Britton played the role of Blondie. In the 1960s and 1970s Lake occurred only rarely on the public. In contrast to naive Dagwood Lake was a shrewd businessman, he was able to invest his money in the film earned well in his retirement.
From 1942 until his death in Lake was married to Patricia Van Cleve, with whom he had two children, Marion (1944 ) and Arthur Jr. Patricia was time presented her life as a niece of actress Marion Davies. Only after her death, revealing Patricia's will that she was the daughter of Davies and their long-time lover, the powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. Lake Arthur died in 1987 at the age of 81 years in Indian Wells, California, of a heart attack. He was buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. For his contributions to the radio, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ( 6646 Hollywood Boulevard).