Create your page here
back to playlist
Jack Pickford (August 18, 1896 - January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, brother of early filmstar Mary Pickford.
After their father deserted the family, all three Pickford children had to take work as child actors. When Mary broke into films, Jack went to Hollywood with her, but was never in her league. When she signed her first $1 million contract, he was mostly playing the boy-next-door in B-films. Some claimed that he had great talent, but suffered from living in her shadow. At any rate, his life of drink, drugs, syphilis and scandal ruled out any career success, and his three marriages to showgirls all ended in failure. Pickford died in Paris of progressive multiple neuritis, aged thirty-six.
Born John Charles Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to John Charles Smith and Charlotte Hennessy Smith in 1896. His alcoholic father left the family while Pickford was a young child. This incident left the family impoverished. In desperation Charlotte Hennessy allowed Pickford and his two sisters Gladys and Lottie to appear onstage. This proved a good source of income and by 1900 the family was based in New York City acting in plays across the United States.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pickford
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
- Loading...
- A Temporary Truce
- Abusive
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic
- Alcoholism
- Automobile
- Autopsy
- B movie
- Biograph Studios
- Brutality (film)
- California
- Canada
- Charles Dickens
- Charlotte Hennessy
- Cocaine
- Drugs
- Exit Smiling
- Film director
- Find a Grave
- First National
- France
- Frances Marion
- French language
- Gang War
- Glendale, California
- Great Expectations
- Heredity (film)
- His Trust Fulfilled
- Hollywood, CA
- Honeymoon
- Hôtel Ritz Paris
- Jack Pickford
- Los Angeles
- Lottie Pickford
- Louella Parsons
- Man's Lust for Gold
- Marilyn Miller
- Mark Twain
- Mary Pickford
- Medical discharge
- Mercury bichloride
- Montparnasse
- Movie studios
- My Baby (film)
- My Hero (1912 film)
- Navy
- Neuritis
- New Jersey
- New York City
- Olive Thomas
- Ontario
- Owen Moore
- Paris
- Pickfair
- Play (theatre)
- Poor Little Peppina
- Poverty
- Premonition
- Ramona (1910 film)
- Santa Monica Pier
- Screen writing
- Stage name
- Syphilis
- The Bat (1926 film)
- The Goose Woman
- The Kid (1910 film)
- The New York Hat
- The Painted Lady
- The Unwelcome Guest
- Thomas Meighan
- To Save Her Soul
- Toronto
- Toronto, Ontario
- United States
- United States Navy
- Vine Street
- Wikipedia Persondata
- Womanizing
- World War I
- WP CITEHOW
- Ziegfeld girl
- Ziegfeld girls
Pickford, Jack Filmography
-
2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1997, role: actor , character name: Various Roles
-
1938, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1934, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1928, role: actor , character name: Clyde Baxter
-
1926, role: actor , character name: Brooks Bailey
-
1926, role: actor , character name: Jim Doolittle
-
1926, role: actor , character name: Jimmy Marsh
-
1925, role: actor , character name: Jack Joyce
-
1925, role: actor , character name: Tony
-
1925, role: actor , character name: Gerald Holmes
-
1924, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1924, role: actor , character name: Jed McCoy
-
1923, role: producer
-
1923, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1923, role: actor , character name: Billy Garrison
-
1922, role: actor
-
1922, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1921, role: director
-
1921, role: director
-
1921, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1920, role: actor , character name: The Llano Kid
-
1920, role: actor , character name: Harry Bullway
-
1920, role: actor , character name: Ed Swinger
-
1920, role: actor , character name: Chad
-
1920, role: actor , character name: Himself
-
1919, role: actor , character name: Jack Robin
-
1919, role: actor , character name: Buddy Apperson
-
1919, role: actor , character name: Johnny Spivins
-
1918, role: actor , character name: Davy Glidden
-
1918, role: actor , character name: Tom Sawyer
-
1918, role: actor , character name: Bunker Bean
-
1918, role: actor , character name: Sandy Kilday
-
1918, role: actor , character name: Undetermined Role
-
1918, role: actor , character name: Kendall
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Thomas 'Tom' Sawyer
-
1917, role: actor
-
1917, role: actor
-
1917, role: actor , character name: John Humperdink Stover
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Pip
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Jimmie Dexter
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Ted Rawson
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Barney Cook
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Freckles
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Jack Ranney
-
1917, role: actor , character name: Dick Hale
-
1916, role: actor
-
1916, role: actor , character name: Billy Boyd
-
1916, role: actor , character name: William Sylvanus Baxter
close fullscreen
- Playlist
- Chat
photo: Creative Commons / Steve Evans
Researchers: King Tut's Iron Dagger Composed Of Materials Of Meteoritic Origins
Edit WorldNews.com 02 Jun 2016
In the past, scientists have claimed that an iron dagger, found along with a gold blade in King Tut's tomb, may have come from meteorites. In addition, other ancient Egyptian iron artifacts have long been thought to be meteoritic, since smelted iron was rarely used ... BCE, anticipating Western culture by more than two millennia,” the report concluded.– WN.com, Jack Durschlag....
photo: Twitter/@DrewKaredesKHOU
Teacher had sex with 13-year-old student, got pregnant, authorities say
Edit Springfield News-Sun 02 Jun 2016
A Texas teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student turned herself in to police Wednesday. According to KTRK, Alexandria Vera, 24, of Houston is accused of sexually abusing the boy, who was an eighth-grade student in her English class at Stovall Middle School last summer ... Read more trending stories ... Read more here ... ....
photo: WN / Shilpa
The Earth's descent into the Sixth Circle of Hell plotted out by US scientists
Edit The Independent 02 Jun 2016
The US Geological Survey has produced an animation showing how the Earth’s temperature has risen from 1850 to the present day – and how it might continue towards a point described by one leading commentator as “the sixth circle of Hell” ... The spiral animation, with the figures for each year building up from a central core, went viral on social media with more than 2.5 million shares on one Facebook page alone....
photo: AP / Jeff Chiu, File
Former richest self-made US woman now worth nothing
Edit Times Union 02 Jun 2016photo: AP / Nick Ut
Woman on 'kill list' in UCLA shooter's home found dead
Edit The Associated Press 02 Jun 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The man who carried out a murder-suicide at UCLA left a "kill list" at his Minnesota home that led authorities to find a woman's dead body, the Los Angeles police chief said Thursday. Mainak Sarkar drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two guns and killed Professor Bill Klug before killing himself, said Chief Charlie Beck, speaking on KTLA-TV ... The other professor on the list is alright ... -- ... ....
« back to news headlines
Tom Sawyer And Huck Finn Are Getting Their Own TV Drama, Because OK, I Guess
Edit Cinema Blend 21 Aug 2015
The entertainment industry loves a good reboot and a good reimagining, and if the subject matter can be made a little grittier in the process, its all the better ... Mark Twain is rolling in his grave while flipping over to Fox ... Im guessing they use a raft to get to and from work ... Film versions of the characters have been around since 1917, which had Jack Pickford as Tom Sawyer, and the first TV show about him came in 1960 ... Louis ... ....
"The Poisoner's Handbook" by Deborah Blum
Edit The Examiner 06 Sep 2014
In her introduction, author Deborah Blum points out that until the 19th century, detecting poison as a means of murder was all but impossible ... It is, in fact, quite informative ... One unfortunate was silent screen actress Olive Thomas, whose sister-in-law, Mary Pickford, also an actress, is now better remembered ... It was actually her husband Jack (Pickford’s) bichloride of mercury potion used for treatment of his syphilis sores....
5 Great Free Things to Do in L.A. This Week
Edit LA Weekly 03 Jan 2014
5. Campfire Songs. Outside time is always the right time when you live in L.A ... Vista Hermosa Park, 100 N. Toluca St., Echo Park; Fri., Jan. 3, crafts 1-3 p.m., campfire 4.30-6 p.m.; free ... --Rena Kosnett. 4. An Art Book Party ... 5 ... 3 ... His profiles include freewheelers such as filmmaker Ed Wood, proto-hippie songwriter eden ahbez and Jack Pickford, the misfit brother of Mary Pickford whose liver (and genitals) cost him his career and his life ... ....
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Next page »
