Raymond Hatton
Raymond Hatton (* July 7, 1887 in Red Oak, Iowa; † October 21, 1971 in Pasadena, California ) was an American actor.
Life
Hatton worked since he was 13 years as an actor in vaudeville and repertory theaters. In 1911 he came to Los Angeles and soon established contacts to the film. He took a predominance of small, sometimes larger supporting roles. Cecil B. DeMille gave him sometimes more important tasks such as the Dauphin Charles in Joan the Woman and Montezuma in The Woman God Forgot. In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he was seen as Esmeralda admirer Pierre Gringoire.
His most successful period he had in the second half of the 1920s as a partner of Wallace Beery in the Riff Raff and series. From then on Hatton frequently played the affable comic sidekick of the heroes of B- Westerns. As a senior hitchhiker in the semi-documentary thriller Cold Blood he ended his 300 film roles comprehensive career.