Roy Applegate

{{Short description|American actor}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Roy Applegate

| image = Actor Roy Applegate (SAYRE 2687).jpg

| caption = Applegate in 1907

| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|12|07}}

| birth_place = Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1950|02|09|1878|12|07}}

| death_place = Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| occupation = Film actor

}}

Roy Applegate (7 December 1878 – 9 February 1950) was an American actor

Background

He played Judge Gates in The Child of Destiny (1916),{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qEbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=29 |publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company |year=1916 |title=The Child of Destiny |page=884}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYcqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910–1936 |first1=Jay Robert |last1=Nash |first2=Robert |last2=Connelly |first3=Stanley Ralph |last3=Ross |publisher=Cinebooks |year=1988 |pages=8, 329, 331 |isbn=9780933997103}} Opera House Manager in The Musician's Daughter (1911),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3VZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=Griffithiana |issue=44–46 |publisher=Cineteca D.W. Griffith |year=1992 |pages=92–93}} Arthur Jepson in All for a Girl (1915),{{sfn|Connelly|1998|p=8}} Simon Legree in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914),{{sfn|Connelly|1998|p=291}} Mackenzie in A Man's Law (1918),{{sfn|Connelly|1998|p=383}} and Detective in Sally of the Sawdust (1925).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baQqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=The Griffith Project |volume=10 |first=Paolo Cherchi |last=Usai |publisher=British Film Institute |year=2006 |page=177 |isbn=9781844572199 |editor-first=Eileen |editor-last=Bowser |editor2-first=Cynthia |editor2-last=Rowell}} He also appeared in The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde (1915).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-npZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=A guide to American silent crime films |first1=Larry |last1=Langman |first2=Daniel |last2=Finn |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1994 |page=59 |isbn=9780313288586}}

Death

He was reported missing since February 9, 1950, and found dead in the bathroom of his home by his sister and brother-in-law due to a heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28731793/1950_roy_applegate_actor_and_veteran/ |title=Roy Applegate, Actor, Veteran, Found Dead |newspaper=The Morning Call |date=11 February 1950 |access-date=28 September 2019 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Filmography

File:Roy Applegate and Elsie MacLeod in "Her Husband's Honor" (1915).jpg

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7tPAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Roy+Applegate%22 |title=The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36 |volume=40 |issue=2 |first=Robert B. |last=Connelly |publisher=December Press |year=1998 |pages=439 |isbn=9780913204368 |edition=2nd}}