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Frank Losee

{{short description|American actor}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2014}}

{{infobox person

| name = Frank Losee

| image = Frank Losee, stage actor (SAYRE 5266).jpg

| caption = Losee in 1909

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|6|12}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York (state), USA

| death_date = {{death date and age|1937|11|14|1856|6|12}}

| death_place = Yonkers, New York

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1890s - 1935

| spouse = Marion Elmore

| children =

}}

Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915.[http://www.allmovie.com/artist/frank-losee-p43351 Frank Losee; allmovie listing of filmography] Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.Silent Film Necrology 2nd. Edition p. 324 c.2001 by Eugene Vazzana

Career

File:Frank Losee, silent film actor (SAYRE 5522).jpg (1921).]]

Losee began as a professional actor with Hooley's Stock company, and he went on to act with several stock theater groups.{{cite book |last1=Briscoe |first1=Johnson |title=The Actors' Birthday Book: Third Series. An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-first |year=1909 |publisher=Moffat, Yard |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBM7AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Frank+Losee%22+actor&pg=PA144 |access-date=September 15, 2020 |language=en}}

Losee's Broadway credits included Present Arms (1928), For All of Us (1923), Just Outside the Door (1915), The Hawk (1914), The Deadlock (1914), The Five Frankfurters (1913), Honest Jim Blunt (1912), The Return of Eve (1909), The Rose of the Rancho (1906), Mizpah (1906), Nancy Stair (1905), When We Dead Awake (1905), Friquet (1905), Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1904), Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1903), Sky Farm (1902), Richard Carvel (1900), A Young Wife (1899), Cumberland '61 (1897), and The Law of the Land (1896).{{cite web |title=Frank Losee |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/frank-losee-68128 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=September 15, 2020 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20200915011645/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/frank-losee-68128 |archivedate=September 15, 2020}}

Personal life

His wife was actress Marion Elmore. They were married in 1884, in Newark.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=January 16, 1934|title=Losee and His Wife Married 50 Years; Ex-Stars of Stage Celebrate in Yonkers -- Mrs. Losee was Marion Elmore.|url=https://nyti.ms/32Q2dFP|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=21 September 2020|website=|page=19|language=en}}

Selected filmography

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References

External links

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  • [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=frank+losee portraits] (New York City Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
  • [http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/sayre/searchterm/frank%20losee/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/cosuppress/ portraits] (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
  • [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=marion+elmore portrait of Marion Elmore], Frank's wife

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Category:1856 births

Category:1937 deaths

Category:American male stage actors

Category:Male actors from Brooklyn

Category:American male silent film actors

Category:20th-century American male actors