Walter Percival
{{Short description|American actor, producer, and writer}}
Walter Percival (May 2, 1887 – January 28,1934) was an American actor, producer, and writer on the stage and screen. He performed in numerous theater productions{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/walter-percival-55908|title=Walter Percival – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/person/walter-percival-vault-0000027996|title=Walter Percival|website=Playbill}} before making his film debut in 1918.
In 1909, Percival was part of a company headed by Grace Van Studdiford.{{cite news |title=Music at the Academy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81177795/the-baltimore-sun/ |access-date=July 10, 2021 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=March 16, 1909 |page=9|via = Newspapers.com}} His Broadway debut was in A Venetian Romance (1904), and his last Broadway performance was in Find Daddy (1926).{{cite web |title=Walter Percival |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/walter-percival-55908 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=July 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710192758/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/walter-percival-55908 |archive-date=July 10, 2021}}
Stage roles
- Eugene Dubois in The Gay Musician (1908){{Sfn|Wallacks Theater Program|June 22, 1908|p=4}}
- Forrest Krider in Will o' th' Wisp (1911), a musical for which he had written the book and lyrics to music by Alfred G. Robyn.{{cite news |last=Saunders |first=Ralph D. |title="Will O' Th' Wisp" Has Music Score Rich In melody |work=St. Louis Post Dispatch |date=May 2, 1911 |location=St. Louis, Missouri |page=8 |via = Newspapers.com}}
- Prince Victor de Champagnax in The Man from Cook's (1912){{cite book|page=149|chapter=The Man from Cook's|author=Dan Dietz|title=The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|year=2021|isbn=9781538150283}}
Filmography
- Our Mrs. McChesney (1918){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYcqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22walter+percival%22+film|title=Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936|first1=Jay Robert|last1=Nash|first2=Robert|last2=Connelly|first3=Stanley Ralph|last3=Ross|date=January 3, 1988|publisher=Cinebooks|isbn=9780933997004|via=Google Books}}
- The Moral Sinner (1924)
- The Flying Horseman (1926)
- The Big City (1928)
- Lights of New York (1928)
- Lightnin' (1930)
- The Avenger (1931){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2tZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22walter+percival%22+film|title=Western Movies: A TV and Video Guide to 4200 Genre Films|date=January 1, 1997|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=9780786404216|via=Google Books}}
- The Homicide Squad (1931)
- Guilty or Not Guilty (1932)
- Cabin in the Cotton (1932){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9Q567gRMikC&dq=%22walter+percival%22+film&pg=PA41|title=Movie Westerns: Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West|first=John Howard|last=Reid|date=December 3, 2005|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781411666108|via=Google Books}}
- Tillie and Gus (1933){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaOgDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22walter+percival%22+film&pg=PA86|title=The W.C. Fields Films|first=James L.|last=Neibaur|date=March 23, 2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476665306|via=Google Books}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0672893}}
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Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:Broadway theatre people
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