Sam De Grasse
84 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 11, 1875
- Died
- Nov 29, 1953 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
- Also known as
- Samuel Alfred De Grasse
Biography
From Wikipedia
Sam De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 appeared in his first motion picture.
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At first he played standard secondary characters, but when fellow Canadian Mary Pickford set up her own studio with her husband Douglas Fairbanks, he joined them. He portrayed the villainous Prince John in Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood. Afterward, he began to specialize in villainous roles.
De Grasse was the uncle of successful cinematographer Robert De Grasse.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 5.9 The Birth of a Nation
1915 · Film
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★ 7.1 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · Film
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★ 7.3 The Man Who Laughs
1928 · Film
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★ 6.4 The King of Kings
1927 · Film
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★ 6.7 The Black Pirate
1926 · Film
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★ 6.4 Robin Hood
1922 · Film
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★ 6.5 The Racket
1928 · Film
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★ 6.4 Blind Husbands
1919 · Film
Sam De Grasse: movies and TV shows
Acting (84)
- 2019 I Am Not a Racist
as The Businessman (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1930 Captain of the Guard
as Bazin
- 1929 Wall Street
as John Willard
- 1929 The Last Performance
as District Attorney
- 1929 Silks and Saddles
as William Morrissey
- 1928 The Man Who Laughs
as King James II
- 1928 The Racket
as District Attorney Welch
- 1928 Our Dancing Daughters
as Freddie's Father
- 1928 Honor Bound
as Blood Keller
- 1927 The Wreck of the Hesperus
as Capt. David Slocum
- 1927 The Fighting Eagle
as Talleyrand
- 1927 The Country Doctor
as Ira Harding
- 1927 When a Man Loves
as Comte Guillot de Morfontaine
- 1927 Captain Salvation
as Peter Campbell
- 1927 The King of Kings
as Pharisee
- 1926 Love's Blindness
as Benjamin Levy
- 1926 The Eagle of the Sea
as Colonel Lestron
- 1926 Broken Hearts of Hollywood
as Defense Attorney
- 1926 Mike
as Brush
- 1926 The Black Pirate
as Pirate Lieutenant
- 1925 Sally, Irene and Mary
as Officer O'Dare
- 1925 Sun-Up
as Sheriff Weeks
- 1925 One Year to Live
as Dr. Lucien La Pierre
- 1924 The Virgin
as Ricardo Ruiz
- 1924 A Self-Made Failure
as Cyrus Cruikshank
- 1924 Pagan Passions
as Frank Langley
- 1924 Painted People
as Henry Parrish
- 1923 The Courtship of Miles Standish
as John Carver
- 1923 Tiger Rose
as Dr. Cusick
- 1923 The Dancer of the Nile
as Pasheri
- 1923 In the Palace of the King
as King Philip II
- 1923 A Prince of a King
as Duke Roberto
- 1923 The Spoilers
as Judge Stillman
- 1923 Circus Days
as Lord
- 1923 Slippy McGee
as Father De Rance
- 1922 Forsaking All Others
as Dr. Mason
- 1922 Robin Hood
as Prince John
- 1921 A Wife's Awakening
as George Otis
- 1921 The Cheater Reformed
as Thomas Edinburgh
- 1920 The Broken Gate
as 'Hod' Brooks
- 1920 Unseen Forces
as Capt. Stanley
- 1920 The Little Grey Mouse
as John Cumberland
- 1920 The Skywayman
as Dr. Wayne Leveridge
- 1920 The Devil's Passkey
as Warren Goodwright
- 1920 Moon Madness
as Adrien
- 1919 Heart o' the Hills
as Steve Honeycutt
- 1919 Blind Husbands
as Dr. Armstrong
- 1919 The Mother and the Law
as Arthur Jenkins
- 1919 The Exquisite Thief
as Shaver Michael
- 1919 The Silk Lined Burglar
as Boston Blackie
- 1919 Sis Hopkins
as Vibert
- 1918 The Hope Chest
as Ballantyne, Sr.
- 1918 The Narrow Path
as Malcolm Dion
- 1918 A Law Unto Herself
as Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)
- 1918
- 1918 The Mortgaged Wife
as Meyer
- 1918 Winner Takes All
as Mark Thorne
- 1918 Smashing Through
as Earl Foster
- 1918 The Guilt of Silence
as Gambler Joe
- 1918 Brace Up
as National Jim
- 1918 Six-Shooter Andy
as Tom Slade
- 1917 The Scarlet Car
as Ernest Peabody
- 1917 The Winged Mystery
as Mortimer Eddington
- 1917 Anything Once
as Herbert Wendling
- 1917 The Empty Gun
as Jim
- 1917 Wild and Woolly
as Steve Shelby
- 1917 Madame Bo-Peep
as Jose Alvarez
- 1917 An Old Fashioned Young Man
as Harold T. King
- 1917 Her Official Fathers
as Ethan Dexter
- 1917 Jim Bludso
as Ben Merrill
- 1916 The Children of the Feud
as Dr. Richard Cavanagh
- 1916 Diane of the Follies
as Phillips Christy
- 1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Arthur Jenkins (Modern Story)
- 1916 The Half-Breed
as Sheriff Dunn
- 1916 An Innocent Magdalene
as Forbes Stewart
- 1916 The Good Bad-Man
as Bud Frazer / The Wolf
- 1916 Acquitted
as Ira Wolcott
- 1916
- 1915 Martyrs of the Alamo
as Silent Smith
- 1915
- 1915 The Birth of a Nation
as Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
- 1914 The Tardy Cannon Ball
as Floss
- 1914 The Badge of Office
as The New Sheriff
- 1914 Turned Back
as George Cantor