Dan Hanlon

{{Short description|American silent film actor (1866–1951)}}

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| caption = Hanlon (right) with Edna Pendleton (middle) and an unknown man in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

| birth_date = 1866

| birth_place = San Francisco, California, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1951|||1866||}}{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

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| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1916

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Daniel E. Hanlon (1866–1951) was an American silent film actor born in San Francisco, California, of Irish heritage. He was best known for his debut film role as Professor Aronnax in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916).{{cite news |url=https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20180104/arcadas-silent-film-series-to-feature-the-first-movie-shot-underwater |title=Arcada's silent film series to feature the first movie shot underwater |date=1 April 2018 |access-date=28 September 2019 |newspaper=Chicago Daily Herald |publisher=Paddock Publications, Inc. |archive-date=28 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928193838/https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20180104/arcadas-silent-film-series-to-feature-the-first-movie-shot-underwater |url-status=live }}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c88qAAAAMAAJ&q=dan+hanlon+aronnax |title=Moving Picture World and View Photographer |date=1917 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company |volume=31 |page=847}} He began his career performing in theatre, debuting on stage in 1894 in Brooklyn, New York. He subsequently toured for the Lizzie Gonzalez Opera company, performed with Lewis Morrison in a West Coast tour of The Privateer, acted opposite Henry Ludlowe, stage managed for Jacob Adler, and appeared with Ralph Stuart in By Right of Sword. He also spent three seasons in the part of Sanballet in the theatre blockbuster Ben-Hur.{{cite book |title=Who's Who in Music and Drama: Hanlon, Daniel E. |date=1914 |publisher=H.P. Hannaford |location=New York |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBnYASAAjRAC&dq=actor+daniel+e.+hanlon&pg=PA153 |access-date=26 August 2024}}

Hanlon is noted by The New York Dramatic Mirror for "contributing to the success of the Crescent Stock company in Brooklyn" in 1909."{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_JNAQAAMAAJ&q=Dan+Hanlon+silent+film |title=The New York Dramatic Mirror |date=1909 |publisher=Dramatic Mirror Company |language=en}} In 1917, while directing for the Players Stock company of St. Louis, he was announced as the producer of a five-reel drama for the St. Louis Times.{{cite news |title=Hanlon to put on film |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWtDAQAAMAAJ&dq=actor+daniel+e.+hanlon&pg=RA18-PT1 |access-date=26 August 2024 |work=The Dramatic Mirror |date=May 12, 1917}}

He died in 1951.