Al W. Filson
Al Filson | |
|---|---|
 In the 1922 film Monte Cristo | |
| Born | Alfred William Filson January 27, 1857 Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 14, 1925 (aged 68) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Alford William Filson |
| Occupation(s) | Actor of stage and film |
| Spouse | Lee Errol (or Lea Errol) |
Al W. Filson (January 27, 1857 – November 14, 1925) was an American actor of stage and film, known for his work in vaudeville.[1] Filson toured with the Orpheum and Keith circuits, with a tramp act.[1][2] He was in several Selig Polyscope Company films.[3]
Filson often performed comedy sketch on stage with his wife, actress Lee Errol (or Lea Errol), under the name Filson and Errol.[4][5][6][7] Filson and Errol performed in "A Daughter of Bacchus" (1905);[4][8] and in the George M. Cohan stage show skit, "A Tip on the Derby".
He copyrighted Ed Chrissie's musical comedy, "A Dose of His Own Medicine" in 1898.[9]
Filmography
- For Her Father's Sins (1914)[10]
- The Love of Loti San (1915)[3]
- The Eternal Feminine (1915)[3]
- The Tiger Slayer (1915)[3]
- The Print of the Nails (1915)[3]
- Bred in the Bone (1915)[3][11]
- Eleven-Thirty P.M. / 11:30 P.M. (1915)[10]
- A Yankee from the West (1915)[10]
- The Old Man Who Tried to Grow Young (1916)[12]
- At Piney Ridge (1916)[11]
- Unto Those Who Sin (1916)[11]
- The Cycle of Fate (1916)[11]
- The Garden of Allah (1916)[11]
- The Valiants of Virginia (1916)[11]
- The Scarlet Car (1917)[11]
- The Lad and the Lion (1917),[11] a film adaptation of The Lad and the Lion
- Beware of Strangers (1917)[11]
- Who Shall Take My Life? (1917)[11]
- Mountain Dew (1917)[11]
- Little Lost Sister (1917)[11]
- String Beans (1918)[11]
- Hands Down (1918)[11]
- Widow by Proxy (1919)[13][14]
- Hairpin (1920)[11]
- Treasure Island (1920)[11]
- Homespun Folks (1920)[11]
- The Girl from God's Country (1921)[15]
- Made in Heaven (1921)[11]
- Chickens (1921)[11]
- Monte Cristo (1922)[13]
- Watch Him Step (1922)[11]
References
- ^ a b "Old Vaudevillian Dies". Los Angeles Evening Post-Record (obituary). November 23, 1925. p. 1. Retrieved August 4, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Keith's Theatre: Vaudeville". Boston Evening Transcript. March 13, 1900. p. 9. Retrieved August 4, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f "Moving Picture World and View Photographer". World Photographic Publishing Company. August 2, 1915 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Al Filson". Minneapolis Daily Times. January 1, 1905. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Filson and Errol". Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections. New York Clipper. April 1, 1899. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
- ^ "Filson and Errol". The Kansas City Times. May 22, 1898. p. 11. Retrieved August 4, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "When Cohan Didn't Know It was "In Him"". Morning Tribune. October 25, 1914. p. 54. Retrieved August 4, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Staples, Shirley (1984). Male-female Comedy Teams in American Vaudeville, 1865-1932. UMI Research Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-8357-1520-1.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (August 2, 1918). "Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916". Johnson Reprint Corporation – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c Usai, Paolo Cherchi (July 25, 2019). "The Griffith Project, Volume 12: Essays on D.W. Griffith". Bloomsbury Publishing – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Al W. Filson". prod.tcm.com.
- ^ "At The Penn". Lancaster Daily Intelligencer. September 5, 1916. p. 5. Retrieved August 4, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Golden, Eve (July 7, 2020). "John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars". University Press of Kentucky – via Google Books.
- ^ "Taylor – Marguerite Clark". The Times. January 9, 1920. p. 20. Retrieved August 4, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Armatage, Kay (January 1, 2003). "The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema". University of Toronto Press – via Google Books.
External links
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