O. P. Heggie
Oliver Peters Heggie ( born September 17, 1877 in Angaston, South Australia, † February 7, 1936 in Los Angeles ) was an Australian actor.
Life and career
OP Heggie 1901 immigrated to the United States after he had already worked in Australia as an actor. He continued his begun in London and Australia acting career continued on Broadway. In 1907 he appeared in the plays of Nance Oldfield, and Captain Brass Bound 's Conversion. In 1915 he played the role of the carpenter Peter Quince in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Wallack 's Theatre. In 1920 he was the director and a supporting role in the drama Footloose in Greenwich Village Theatre. His last role on Broadway Heggie played from October 1933 to March 1934 in the play The Green Bay Tree.
Heggie 1928 was more than fifty years in the comedian made his debut on the big screen. In 1929 he turned to Jeanne Eagels as a partner in the film The Letter, and with Warner Oland The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu. In 1934 he took over the role of Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables. A year later, he played the role of the blind hermit who befriends the Monster ( Boris Karloff ) in the most famous scene in the film The Bride of Frankenstein. His last film The Prisoner of Shark Island was not published until after his death.
Heggie was married and had three children. He died in February 1936 at the age of 58 years of pneumonia.