Walter Long (actor)

Walter Long
Walter Long, 1924
Born	(1879-03-05)March 5, 1879 Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died	July 4, 1952(1952-07-04) (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1910 - 1950

Walter Huntley Long (March 5, 1879 – July 4, 1952) was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Career

From The Birth of a Nation-Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, a black man portrayed in blackface by Walter Long

Cast of Kick In (1922) L. to R.: Betty Compson, Bert Lytell, Charles Ogle, May McAvoy, Gareth Hughes, Walter Long, Kathleen Clifford, Jed Prouty, Mayme Kelso and Robert Agnew

He appeared in many D. W. Griffith films, notably The Birth of a Nation (1915), where he appeared as Gus, an African American, in blackface make-up, and Intolerance (1916).

Long also supported Rudolph Valentino in the films The Sheik, Moran of the Lady Letty, and Blood and Sand. He later appeared as a comic villain in four Laurel and Hardy films during the early 1930s.

Personal life

In 1908, Long married Luray Roble, a stenographer from Wisconsin who later became an actress at Triangle/Fine Arts. She died in 1918 at age 28, due to the Spanish influenza epidemic.

Walter Long and Carol Dempster in Scarlet Days (1919)

Walter Long served in during World War I and World War II attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel before receiving an honorable discharge at the end of World War II.

Death

Long died of a heart attack on July 4, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, while watching the fireworks display at The Coliseum, during Fourth of July celebrations.

Partial filmography

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Walter Long (actor).

• Walter Long at the Internet Movie Database
• Walter Long at Find a Grave