Jimmy Callahan (actor)

{{Short description|American actor (1891–1957)}}

{{about|the actor who lived 1891-1957|the actor who lived 1930-2007|James Callahan (actor)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Jimmy Callahan

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|06|16}}

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date ={{Death date and age|1957|09|21|1891|07|16}}

|death_place = Belleville, New Jersey, U.S.

| nationality = American

| occupation = Actor

|years_active = 1921–1925

}}

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Jimmy Callahan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1891 – September 21, 1957, Belleville, New Jersey) was an American actor who made several silent comedy short films in the 1920s.Eugene Michael Vazzana, Silent Film Necrology – 2001 – p. 76 0786410590 Moving Picture World (USA) 9 July 1921, p. 215, "Jimmy Callahan Meets Painful Injury in Hydroplane Accident" Moving Picture World (USA) 30 April 1921, p. 976, "Jimmy Callahan Will Produce Comedy Series in Atlantic City"Tom Dardis, Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock (1983), p. 96. "Still others have vanished into oblivion: Jimmy Callahan, George R. Clarke, Jimmy Adams, and Sid Smith ... It may well be asked, if comedy was prized so highly, why didn't the great silent comedy stars begin making ..."