Walter Percival (May 2, 1887 – January 28, 1934)[1] was an American actor, producer, and writer on the stage and screen. He performed in numerous theater productions[2][3] before making his film debut in 1918.
In 1909, Percival was part of a company headed by Grace Van Studdiford.[4] His Broadway debut was in A Venetian Romance (1904), and his last Broadway performance was in Find Daddy (1926).[1]
Stage roles
- Eugene Dubois in The Gay Musician (1908)[5]
- Forrest Krider in Will o' th' Wisp (1911), a musical for which he had written the book and lyrics to music by Alfred G. Robyn.[6]
- Prince Victor de Champagnax in The Man from Cook's (1912)[7]
Filmography
- Our Mrs. McChesney (1918)[8]
- The Moral Sinner (1924)
- The Flying Horseman (1926)
- The Big City (1928)
- Lights of New York (1928)
- Lightnin' (1930)
- The Avenger (1931)[9]
- The Homicide Squad (1931)
- Guilty or Not Guilty (1932)
- Cabin in the Cotton (1932)[10]
- Tillie and Gus (1933)[11]
Sources
- Neibaur, James L. (March 23, 2017). The W.C. Fields Films. McFarland. ISBN 9781476665306 – via Google Books.
- Reid, John Howard (December 3, 2005). Movie Westerns: Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781411666108 – via Google Books.
- Percival, Walter (January 1, 1997). Western Movies: A TV and Video Guide to 4200 Genre Films. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786404216 – via Google Books.
- Nash, Jay Robert; Connelly, Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (January 3, 1988). Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936. Cinebooks. ISBN 9780933997004 – via Google Books.
- Dietz, Dan (2021). "The Man from Cook's". The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 149. ISBN 9781538150283.
References
- "Walter Percival". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on July 10, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
- "Walter Percival – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- "Walter Percival". Playbill.
- "Music at the Academy". The Baltimore Sun. March 16, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved July 10, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- The Gay Musician at the Internet Broadway Database
- Saunders, Ralph D. (May 2, 1911). ""Will O' Th' Wisp" Has Music Score Rich In melody". St. Louis Post Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- Dietz 2021, p. 149.
- Nash, Connelly & Ross 1988.
- Percival 1997.
- Reid 2005, p. 41.
- Neibaur 2017, p. 86.
External links
- Walter Percival at IMDb
- The Homicide Squad (1931)