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_-_Earl_Schenck.jpg) Schenck in the war filmThe Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919) | |
| Born | (1889-05-13)May 13, 1889 |
| Died | 1962 (aged 72–73) |
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Earl O. Schenck (13 May 1889 –c. 1962) was an American filmactor. He appeared in 41 films between1916 and1946.
After playing leading roles onBroadway and inHollywood during theSilent era opposite such stars asMae Murray,Mae Marsh,Norma Talmadge,Alia Nazimova andMarion Davies, Schenck developed "Klieg light eyes". Threatened with totalblindness,[1] he interrupted a distinguished stage career and went toHawaii to rest.
In the South Seas he found a new career as an explorer and ethnologist. He secured aroving commission from theBishop Museum inHonolulu, the leading museum in the world inPolynesian research, to make miniatures and gather artifacts of various Polynesian Islands and spent fourteen years traveling from island to island. During this time, Schenck also contributed to theNational Geographic and other magazines.
Returning to his homeland after twenty years of wandering, Schenck won success in still another field as a lecturer on the South Seas and, during the war, served the U.S. Navy Department in planning bases in the Southwest Pacific. For nine months, he also worked with the U.S. Maritime Commission as a government speaker in shipyards and factories to speed up production.
He returned to his career as a motion picture actor withMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943, on an "actor-writer" contract.
After suffering from severalstrokes, Schenck retired toTahiti where he died in 1962 at the age of 72.
I has almost lost my sight, but that was not all that had happened to my eyes
Earl Schenck portrays the Kaiser's illegitimate son... This was one of Warner Brothers' first entries in the burgeoning film industry and helped launch the studio into its eventual success.
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