Frank Losee

Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915.^[1] Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.^[2]

Frank Losee
Losee in 1909
Born	(1856-06-12)June 12, 1856 Brooklyn, New York (state), USA
Died	November 14, 1937(1937-11-14) (aged 81) Yonkers, New York
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1890s - 1935
Spouse	Marion Elmore

Career

Frank Losee in the film Orphans of the Storm (1921).

Losee began as a professional actor with Hooley's Stock company, and he went on to act with several stock theater groups.^[3]

Losee's Broadway credits included Present Arms (1928), For All of Us (1923), Just Outside the Door (1915), The Hawk (1914), The Deadlock (1914), The Five Frankfurters (1913), Honest Jim Blunt (1912), The Return of Eve (1909), The Rose of the Rancho (1906), Mizpah (1906), Nancy Stair (1905), When We Dead Awake (1905), Friquet (1905), Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1904), Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1903), Sky Farm (1902), Richard Carvel (1900), A Young Wife (1899), Cumberland '61 (1897), and The Law of the Land (1896).^[4]

Personal life

His wife was actress Marion Elmore. They were married in 1884, in Newark.^[5]

Selected filmography

• The Eternal City (1915)
• Helene of the North (1915)
• The Masqueraders (1915)
• Diplomacy (1916)
• The Innocent Lie (1916)
• The Moment Before (1916)
• The Evil Thereof (1916)
• Hulda from Holland (1916)
• Ashes of Embers (1916)
• Less Than the Dust (1916)
• Miss George Washington (1916)
• The Valentine Girl (1917)
• Bab's Diary (1917)
• Seven Keys to Baldgate (1917)
• Bab's Burglar (1917)
• Bab's Matinee Idol (1917)
• Madame Jealousy (1918)
• The Song of Songs (1918)
• Sunshine Nan (1918)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918)
• On the Quiet (1918)
• In Pursuit of Polly (1918)
• His Parisian Wife (1919)
• Here Comes the Bride (1919)
• Paid in Full (1919)
• Marie, Ltd. (1919)
• Civilian Clothes (1920)
• Right to Love (1920)
• The Fear Market (1920)
• Broadway and Home (1920)
• Lady Rose's Daughter (1920)
• Half an Hour (1920)
• The Riddle: Woman (1920)
• Such a Little Queen (1921)
• Orphans of the Storm (1921)
• The Man She Brought Back (1922)
• The Seventh Day (1922)
• False Fronts (1922)
• As a Man Lives (1923)
• The Speed Spook (1924)
• Unguarded Women (1924)

References

1. Frank Losee; allmovie listing of filmography
2. Silent Film Necrology 2nd. Edition p. 324 c.2001 by Eugene Vazzana
3. Briscoe, Johnson (1909). The Actors' Birthday Book: Third Series. An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-first. Moffat, Yard. p. 144. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
4. "Frank Losee". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on September 15, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
5. "Losee and His Wife Married 50 Years; Ex-Stars of Stage Celebrate in Yonkers -- Mrs. Losee was Marion Elmore". January 16, 1934. p. 19. Retrieved September 21, 2020.

External links

• Frank Losee at the Internet Broadway Database
• Frank Losee at IMDb
• portraits (New York City Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
• portraits (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
• portrait of Marion Elmore, Frank's wife