Sam De Grasse

Personal Info

Birthday

June 11, 1875

Day of Death

1953-11-29

(78 years old)

Place of Birth

Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

Also Known As

Samuel Alfred De Grasse

Sam De Grasse

Biography

From Wikipedia Sam De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 appeared in his first motion picture. At first he played standard secondary characters, but when fellow Canadian Mary Pickford set up her own studio with her husband Douglas Fairbanks, he joined them. He portrayed the villainous Prince John in Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood. Afterward, he began to specialize in villainous roles. De Grasse was the uncle of successful cinematographer Robert De Grasse.

Known For

The Half-Breed

The Birth of a Nation

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

One Year to Live

The Narrow Path

Martyrs of the Alamo

The Black Pirate

Robin Hood

Filmography

2019
I Am Not a Racist
as the businessman
1930
Captain of the Guard
as Bazin
1929
Wall Street
as John Willard
The Last Performance
as District Attorney
Silks and Saddles
as William Morrissey
1928
The Racket
as District Attorney Welch
Our Dancing Daughters
as Freddie's Father
Honor Bound
as Blood Keller
The Man Who Laughs
as King James II
1927
The Wreck of the Hesperus
as Capt. David Slocum
The Fighting Eagle
as Talleyrand
The Country Doctor
as Ira Harding
When a Man Loves
as Comte Guillot de Morfontaine
Captain Salvation
as Peter Campbell
The King of Kings
as Pharisee
1926
Love's Blindness
as Benjamin Levy
The Eagle of the Sea
as Colonel Lestron
Broken Hearts of Hollywood
as Defense Attorney
Mike
as Brush
The Black Pirate
as Pirate Lieutenant
1925
Sally, Irene and Mary
as Officer O'Dare
Sun-Up
as Sheriff Weeks
One Year to Live
as Dr. Lucien La Pierre
1924
The Virgin
as Ricardo Ruiz
A Self-Made Failure
as Cyrus Cruikshank
Painted People
as Henry Parrish
1923
The Courtship of Miles Standish
as John Carver
Tiger Rose
as Dr. Cusick
The Dancer of the Nile
as Pasheri
The Spoilers
as Judge Stillman
Circus Days
as Lord
Slippy McGee
as Father De Rance
1922
Forsaking All Others
as Dr. Mason
Robin Hood
as Prince John
1921
The Cheater Reformed
as Thomas Edinburgh
1920
The Broken Gate
as 'Hod' Brooks
Unseen Forces
as Capt. Stanley
The Skywayman
as Dr. Wayne Leveridge
The Devil's Passkey
as Warren Goodwright
1919
Heart o' the Hills
as Steve Honeycutt
Blind Husbands
as Dr. Armstrong
The Mother and the Law
as Arthur Jenkins
The Exquisite Thief
as Shaver Michael
The Silk Lined Burglar
as Boston Blackie
Sis Hopkins
as Vibert
1918
The Hope Chest
as Ballantyne, Sr.
The Narrow Path
as Malcolm Dion
A Law Unto Herself
as Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)
Winner Takes All
as Mark Thorne
Smashing Through
as Earl Foster
Brace Up
as National Jim
Six-Shooter Andy
as Tom Slade
1917
The Scarlet Car
as Ernest Peabody
The Winged Mystery
as Mortimer Eddington
Anything Once
as Herbert Wendling
The Empty Gun
as Jim
Wild and Woolly
as Steve Shelby
Madame Bo-Peep
as Jose Alvarez
An Old Fashioned Young Man
as Harold T. King
Her Official Fathers
as Ethan Dexter
Jim Bludso
as Ben Merrill
1916
Diane of the Follies
as Phillips Christy
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Arthur Jenkins (Modern Story)
The Half-Breed
as Sheriff Dunn
An Innocent Magdalene
as Forbes Stewart
The Good Bad-Man
as Bud Frazer / The Wolf
Acquitted
as Ira Wolcott
1915
Martyrs of the Alamo
as Silent Smith
The Birth of a Nation
as Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
1914
The Tardy Cannon Ball
as Floss
The Badge of Office
as The New Sheriff
Turned Back
as George Cantor