Sam De Grasse
Sam De Grasse ( born June 12, 1875 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, † November 29, 1953 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA; actually Samuel Alfred de Grasse ) was a Canadian actor.
Life
After his brother Joseph De Grasse had become successful as a director in the film business, followed him Sam De Grasse and played his first role in a 1912 film. By the year 1915, De Grasse played small and larger roles in different genres and embodied most romantic heroes. After playing the role of Senator Charles Sumner in David Wark Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation, Douglas Fairbanks became aware of De Grasse, and put the actor in 1916 in his film The Good Bad Man for the first time. The same year, De Grasse played in Griffiths intolerance.
In Allan Dwan's Robin Hood film from 1922 De Grasse embodied the Prince John, while Fairbanks starred in the title role. After Robin Hood, De Grasse moved more and more to the role of the villain, like Talleyrand, 1927 in Fighting Eagle, a Pharisee in Cecil B. DeMille's epic King of Kings from the same year or James II in The Man Who Laughs from the year 1928th De Grasse, which occurred only twice in sound films in Wall Street (1929 ) and Captain of the Guard (1930 ), left the film business 1930. uncle the cameraman Robert De Grasse has been involved in his career in more than one hundred films and has worked with such directors as Erich von Stroheim, Paul Leni, Lewis Milestone and John Ford.