Born February 9, 1901· Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
† Died April 6, 1972
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Born to Irish immigrants and raised in Wisconsin after a childhood move from either Ohio or Northern Ireland, he lied about his age to join the National Guard, served in the Pancho Villa expedition and in France during World I, then moved to New York where he modeled for J.C. Leyendecker before launching a stage career in the early 1920s. After small parts in silent pictures and a breakthrough on…
