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Samuel Alfred De Grace ( June 12, 1875 - November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he trained to be a dentist. After his older brother Joe had gone into the fledgling movie business, Samuel decided to also give it a try. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 he acted in his first motion picture.At first, Sam De Grasse played standard secondary characters but when fellow Canadian Mary Pickford set up her own studio with her husband Douglas Fairbanks, he joined them. Skillfully cast as a shifty-eyed villain, after this, De Grasse began to specialize in the role of the "bad guy".
Sam de Grasse married actress Ada Fuller Golden and had a daughter, Clementine. He lived on the west coast until his death in Hollywood. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
During his career, Sam De Grasse appeared in 107 films. A few of them are:
- The Birth of a Nation - (1915)
- The Good Bad Man - (1915)
- IntoleranceIntolerance is a silent film directed by D. Griffith in 1916. The film, considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era, was made in response to critics, who claimed that Griffith's 1915 epic, The Birth of a Nation, was racist. One of the most - (1916)
- Wild and WoollyWild and Woolly is a 1917 silent film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy and Walter Bytell. The movie was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Ho - (1917)
- An Old Fashioned Young Man - (1917)
- Blind Husbands - (1919)
- Robin Hood - (1922)
- The Spoilers - (1922)
- Forsaking All Others - (1922)
- Slippy McGee - (1923)
- Painted People - (1924)
- The Black PirateThe Black Pirate is a 1926 adventure film which tells the story of a young nobleman who infiltrates a ship full of pirates to avenge his father's death. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse and Billie Dove. In one long, dramatic sce (1926)
- The Fighting Eagle - (1927)
- King of Kings - (1927)
- Our Dancing Daughters - (1928)
- The Man Who Laughs - (1928)
- Wall StreetWall Street has been the name of two movies, one released in 1929 and the other in 1987. Coincidentally these years featured the two biggest stock market crashes in American history ( Black Thursday in 1929 and Black Monday in 1987). 1929 movie The 1929 m - (1929)
- Captain of the Guard - (1930)
See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early HollywoodMotion pictures have been a part of the culture of Canada since the beginning. Hollywood and the development of its motion picture industry owes no small part of its success to a number of Canadians. At the beginning of the 1900s, young men and women, in
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