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