I was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, on January 17, 1880, then came to the U.S. with my family at a young age (living in Massachusetts and Connecticut). I became a singer, dabbled in opera, worked the choruses on Broadway and then entered motion pictures in 1908 with the Biograph Company under the tutelage of the great D.W. Griffith. I became a director in 1911, and in 1912 I founded the Keystone Film Company. Over the next 21 years I set the standard for movie comedy, and along the way I discovered the likes of Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Harry Langdon, Carole Lombard and many others, and have long been associated with Keystone cops, bathing beauties and the pie in the face. My studio went under in 1933, and now in my retirement I'm building a new studio here on my space.
My Interests
I'd like to meet:
Talented comedians, comediennes, and bathing beauties who want to make it big in pictures.
