Biographie

Attended Yale University, where he played football, graduating in 1903 with a B.A. and LL.B. He also attended Stewarttown University in Stewarttown, Ontario, Canada, where he earned an LL.D. He studied law and earned graduate and mining certificates, eventually joining a government geological survey through Mexico, Colorado and into the Rockies.

Often acted in westerns whenever not playing Irish cops.

Was the principal director of L. Frank Baum's Oz Film Manufacturing Co.

Began as a singer in minstrel shows. In films with Carl Laemmle in New York from 1911.

Character player, usually stern of demeanor, who appeared in hundreds of films, many of them westerns, from 1915-1951. He was long associated with the director John Ford.