Ford Sterling
Ford Sterling ( born George Ford stitch; born November 3, 1883 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, † October 13, 1939 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film and theater actor, and film director.
Life
Ford Sterling was already at a young age away from home and joined the Big Top circus performers and circus director John Robinson. Under the name of Keno, the Boy Clown he soon became known on tours of the circus. As a young man sterling began to play as a member of various groups theaters, and won, among others, in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. In three pieces he stood 1905-1907 on Broadway on stage.
In 1911, Sterling was discovered by film producer Mack Sennett, who undertook the actor in the same year for his silent film Dutch gold mine. Although the vast majority of his future works were short films, Sterling was in nearly 300 films before the camera, alone in the year 1913 in just 100 pieces, including The Speed Kings. 1912 Sterling was appointed by Sennett as a member of the Keystone Cops, a group of comedians who always embodied clumsy and funny police in movies. For a long time the comedian Sterling as a serious competitor of Charles Chaplin, although he never reached the same star status. 1915 Sterling was with Only a Messenger Boy made his debut as a director, until 1922 eight other digressions should follow behind the camera.
Private counted Sterling soon the wealthiest men of his time. We often referred to him as the best dressed man in Hollywood ( engl.: the best dressed man in Hollywood). To buy clothes, he travels were not even too far to England and France. In Nice, Sterling was the owner of a villa. Also he grew in his spare Shepherds and Persian cats.
In 1914 saw the already 31 years old Sterling stir when he married the only 16 -year-old actress Teddy Sampson. The two were up to Sterling's death, in 1939, married. The two had no children.
Ford Sterling, a long time from diabetes mellitus suffered, died at age 55 of a heart attack.
In his honor, today there is a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame