Roland Bottomley

Roland Bottomley
Bottomley in A Man's Home (1921)
BornSeptember 23, 1880
Liverpool, England
DiedJanuary 5, 1947(1947-01-05) (aged 66)
New York City, US
Resting place
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York
Occupationactor
Years active1913-1944

Roland Bottomley (1880-1947)[1] was a British born American stage and film actor from Liverpool, England. Some sources have him born in 1878 and others in 1879.[2][3] He moved to America circa 1913 and settled in California. He first made movies for the Kalem Company. By the 1920s he acted at Paramount, Fox, Universal and for Thomas H. Ince. In 1921 he portrayed Dr. Simpson in Augustus Thomas's Nemesis at the Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia[4] and on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre.[5] After his last film in 1925 he returned to Broadway for the remainder of his career. Bottomley died in New York at the beginning of 1947.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ Who Was Who on Screen p.46 2nd Edition c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt ..ISBN 0-8352-0914-8
  2. ↑ Silent Film Necrology, p.55 2nd Edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana ..ISBN 0-7864-1059-0
  3. ↑ American and British Theatrical Biography, p.125 c.1979 by J. P. Wearing ..ISBN 0-8108-1201-0
  4. ↑ "Nemesis is Powerful". The Philadelphia Inquirer. March 22, 1921. p. 10.
  5. ↑ "Nemesis, New Melodrama by Augustus Thomas, Not Impressive". New York Herald. April 5, 1921. p. 11.
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