Rockliffe Fellowes

Rockliffe Fellowes
Fellowes in 1923
Born	Rockliffe St. Patrick Fellowes (1884-03-17)17 March 1884 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	28 January 1950(1950-01-28) (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active	1907–1934

Rockliffe St Patrick Fellowes (17 March 1884 – 28 January 1950) was a Canadian actor who starred in films such as Regeneration and Monkey Business.

Biography

Ethel Clayton and Fellowes in The Man Hunt (1918)

Rockliffe St Patrick Fellowes was born in the village of New Edinburgh, Ontario, (now part of Ottawa, Ontario) Canada on St Patrick's Day 1884, a descendant of noted Canadian families. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rockliffe Fellowes, and he had three brothers.

After following a business career for some years, he gave it up to go onto the stage in 1907. His first play was Brown of Harvard. He toured with Robert Loraine's company and appeared in Man and Superman in Toronto in 1913.

Fellowes later made his entry into films as the redemptive hero of Raoul Walsh's 1915 silent gangster film Regeneration. He appeared in over 60 films, mostly silents, and is best remembered today for his role as gangster Joe Helton in Monkey Business (1931) starring the Marx Brothers. He appeared in Within the Law, Under Cover, Her Sister among other films, as a supporting actor for actors like Ethel Barrymore and Grace George.

Fellowes retired from acting in 1934. He spent his retirement years teaching and writing with an occasional appearance in westerns. He died on 28 January 1950 in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital of heart failure.

Partial filmography

• Regeneration (1915)
• Where Love Leads (1916)
• The Web of Desire (1917)
• The Bondage of Fear (1917)
• Man's Woman (1917)
• Friend Husband (1918)
• The Panther Woman (1918)
• The Cup of Fury (1920)
• Yes or No ? (1920)
• In Search of a Sinner (1920)
• The Point of View (1920)
• The Price of Possession (1921)
• Bits of Life (1921)
• Island Wives (1922)
• The Strangers' Banquet (1922)
• Trifling with Honor (1923)
• The Remittance Woman (1923)
• The Spoilers (1923)
• Borrowed Husbands (1924)
• Flapper Wives (1924)
• The Signal Tower (1924)
• Missing Daughters (1924)
• Cornered (1924)
• The Border Legion (1924)
• The Garden of Weeds (1924)
• East of Suez (1925)
• Without Mercy (1925)
• Counsel for the Defense (1925)
• Rose of the World (1925)
• Rocking Moon(1926)
• Silence (1926)
• Honesty – The Best Policy (1926)
• Syncopating Sue (1926)
• The Taxi Dancer (1927)
• The Satin Woman (1927)
• Outside the Law (1930)
• Monkey Business (1931)
• Renegades of the West (1932)
• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) unbilled
• The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
• Rusty Rides Alone (1933)
• Back Page (1934)

External links

• Rockliffe Fellowes at IMDb
• Rockliffe Fellowes at the Internet Broadway Database
• Rockcliffe Fellowes portraits (New York City Public Library, Billy Rose collection)