DeWitt Jennings
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Jennings circa 1920
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Born | Cameron, Missouri, USA |
July 21, 1871
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hollywood, California, USA |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1906–1937 |
DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937.
Biography
He was born in Cameron, Missouri on June 21, 1871 to Georgia S. and Oliver A. Jennings.[1][2] In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California on March 1, 1937.[3]
Partial filmography
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- The Deep Purple (1915)
- The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
- At Bay (1915)
- Out of Luck (1923)
- Blinky (1923)
- Within the Law (1923)
- The Desert Outlaw (1924)
- The Enemy Sex (1924)
- The Silent Watcher (1924)
- The Mystic (1925)
- Don't (1925)
- Chip of the Flying U (1926)
- While London Sleeps (1926)
- Exit Smiling (1926)
- Two Arabian Knights (1927)
- Great Mail Robbery (1927)
- The Night Flyer (1928)
- The Valiant (1929)
- Those Who Dance (1930
- Outside the Law (1930)
- The Squaw Man (1931)
- The Deceiver (1931)
- Salvation Nell (1931)
- Movie Crazy (1932)
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)
- Little Man, What Now? (1934)
- Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
- Death on the Diamond (1934)
- A Wicked Woman (1934)
- A Man's Game (1934)
- A Dog of Flanders (1935)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
References
- ↑ DeWitt C. Jennings, born June 1871 in Missouri; in the 1900 US census in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- ↑ In later years he used 1879 as his birth year. Hollywood actors in their resumes tend to make themselves younger as they age. A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses uses 1872. Who is Who and Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion as well as others use 1879.
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External links
- DeWitt Jennings at the Internet Movie Database
- DeWitt Jennings at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- DeWitt Jennings at Find a Grave
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- 1871 births
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- 20th-century American male actors
- Male actors from Missouri
- American male film actors
- American male silent film actors
- American male stage actors
- People from Cameron, Missouri
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)