Canadian Pioneers in Early Hollywood - List of Canadian Film Pioneers in Hollywood

List of Canadian Film Pioneers in Hollywood

Among those Canadians who took part in the early years of Hollywood were:

  • Allakariallak (1890s–1924?), Inuit actor & subject of "Nanook of the North"
  • Charles Arling (1880–1922), actor
  • William Bertram (1880–1933), actor, director
  • Ben Blue (1901–1975), actor, comedian
  • Jack Carson (1910–1963), actor
  • Al Christie (1881–1951), co-founder of Christie Film Company, director/producer/screenwriter
  • Charles Christie (1880–1955), co-founder of Christie Film Company; builder of Hollywood's first luxury hotel
  • Berton Churchill (1876–1940), actor
  • Sam De Grasses (1875–1953), actor
  • Joe De Grasse (1873–1940), director
  • Fifi D'Orsay (1904–1983), actress
  • Marie Dressler (1869–1934), Academy Award for Best Actress
  • Douglass Dumbrille (1889–1974), moving and television actor
  • Allan Dwan (1885–1981), director, producer, screenwriter
  • Edward Earle (1882–1972), actor
  • Rockliffe Fellowes (1883–1950), actor
  • Glenn Ford (1916–2006), actor
  • Huntley Gordon (1887–1956), actor
  • Harry Hayden (1882–1955), actor
  • George Delbert Henderson (1883–1956), actor, director, writer
  • Walter Huston (1884–1950), Academy Award winning actor
  • May Irwin (1862-1938), actor, first screen kiss in 1896
  • Ruby Keeler, (1909–1993), dancer, actress
  • Barbara Kent (1906-2011), actress
  • Florence La Badie (1888–1917), actress
  • Florence Lawrence (1886–1938), "America's first movie star"
  • Beatrice Lillie (1894-1989), actress
  • Gene Lockhart (1891–1957), actor
  • Del Lord (1894–1970), comedy director
  • Wilfred Lucas (1871–1940), director, screenwriter, actor
  • Henry MacRae (1876–1944), director, producer, screenwriter, actor
  • Raymond Massey (1896–1983), actor
  • Louis B. Mayer (1885–1957), co–founder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Motion Picture Studios
  • Bob Nolan (1908-1980), singer/actor in western musicals as leader of "The Sons of the Pioneers"
  • Sidney Olcott (1873–1949), director
  • Jack Pickford (1896–1933), actor, Hollywood's first "Bad Boy"
  • Lottie Pickford (1893-1936), actress
  • Mary Pickford (1892–1979), "America's Sweetheart," Academy Award for Best Actress, co–founder of United Artists
  • Walter Pidgeon (1897–1984), actor
  • Marie Prevost (1898–1937), actress
  • William Quinn (1884–1965), actor
  • Mack Sennett (1880–1960), director, known as the "King of Comedy"
  • Athole Shearer (1900–1985), actress, wife of director Howard Hawks
  • Douglas Shearer, (1899–1971), sound director/designer, winner of seven Academy Awards
  • Norma Shearer (1902–1983), Academy Award for Best Actress
  • Nell Shipman (1892–1970), actress, writer, producer
  • Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), actor known for his portrayal of Tonto, sidekick to the Lone Ranger
  • Ned Sparks (1883–1957), actor
  • Richard Travers (1885–1935), actor
  • Jack Warner (1892–1978), co-founder of Warner Brothers
  • Marjorie White (1904-1935), actress
  • Joseph Wiseman (1918–2009), actor
  • Fay Wray (1907–2004), actress

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