Verner Clarges

{{short description|Silent film actor}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Verner Clarges

| image = Harvard Theatre Collection - Verner Clarges TCS 1.5102 - cropped.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1846|1|9}}

| birth_place = Bath, Somerset, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1911|8|11|1846|1|9}}

| death_place = New York, New York, US

| yearsactive = 1909–1911

| occupation = Actor

}}

Verner Clarges (January 9, 1846 – August 11, 1911) was a stage actor who later appeared in silent films. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1909 and 1911. Clarges was born in Bath, Somerset, England, and came to America in 1883 as a lyceum entertainer. He performed as a platform reader before he became an actor.{{cite news|title=Old Film Actor Deceased|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOpJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Verner+Clarges%22&pg=RA1-PA141|work=Motography|date=September 1911|page=141|language=en}} On August 11, 1911, Clarges died at his home in New York, New York.{{cite news|title=Verner Clarges|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18694866/verner_clarges/|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=August 12, 1911|location=New York, Brooklyn|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = March 27, 2018}} {{Open access}}