Walter Percival

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

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

  1. ^ a b "Walter Percival". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on July 10, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
  2. ^ "Walter Percival – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  3. ^ "Walter Percival". Playbill.
  4. ^ "Music at the Academy". The Baltimore Sun. March 16, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved July 10, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ ​The Gay Musician​ at the Internet Broadway Database
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Dietz 2021, p. 149.
  8. ^ Nash, Connelly & Ross 1988.
  9. ^ Percival 1997.
  10. ^ Reid 2005, p. 41.
  11. ^ Neibaur 2017, p. 86.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.