Tom Santschi

Paul William "Tom" Santschi (October 24, 1880 – April 9, 1931) was an American leading man and character actor of the silent film era.

Tom Santschi
Santschi c. 1920
Born	Paul William Santschi (1880-10-24)October 24, 1880 Crystal City, Missouri, U.S.
Died	April 9, 1931(1931-04-09) (aged 50) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, director
Years active	1907–1931

Personal life

Santschi was born in Missouri to Paul Santschi, a Swiss immigrant, and Margaret Kern, a native of Louisville, Kentucky.^[1] The family later moved to Kokomo, Indiana.^[2][3] Paul left home to pursue a career in moviemaking (as Tom Santschi), and at the time he registered for the draft in 1918, he was working for the Goldwyn Motion Picture Corporation in Fort Lee, New Jersey.^[1]

Career

Santschi acted in over 245 films during the period 1907–1931, and directed 28 films during 1914–1916. He wrote one screenplay in 1914. A 1915 two-reeler, In the King's Service, in which he starred with Marion Warner, surfaced at a yard sale in Maine, and was shown along with The Spoilers (1914) at a Northeast Historic Film Festival at Bucksport, Maine in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

Partial filmography

Actor

Flier for The Night Herder (1911)

Flier for Euchered (1912)

Flier for The Early Bird (1912)

Poster for The Still Alarm (1918)

Advertisement for The Heart of Doreon (1921)

Lobby card for 3 Bad Men (1926), with Santschi second from left

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1909	Fighting Bob		[4]: 81
1909	A Country Girl's Peril		[4]: 81
1909	The Heart of a Race Tout		[5][4]: 82
1909	In the Sultan's Power		[6]
1909	Mephisto and the Maiden		[6]
1909	Ben's Kid		[7]
1909	On the Border		[5]
1909	Up San Juan Hill		[5]
1909	Faust		[5]
1910	Across the Plains		[5]
1910	Davy Crockett		[5]
1910	Mazeppa		[5]
1910	The Sergeant		[6]
1910	Pride of the Range		[8]
1911	Kit Carson's Wooing		[5]
1911	The Heart of John Barlow		[5]
1912	The Count of Monte Cristo	Danglars	as William T. Santschi[5][9][10]
1912	A Broken Spur	Ed Harvey	[11]
1912	A Crucial Test	Bill Wildern	[12]
1912	Euchered	Tom Saunders	[13]
1913	The Adventures of Kathlyn	Bruce	[6]
1913	Alas! Poor Yorick	Hamlet McGinnis	[14]
1913	In the Long Ago	Indian Warrior
1913	Wamba, a Child of the Jungle	Portuguese Pete	[15]
1914	The Spoilers	Alex McNamara	[6]
1915	The Lion's Mate	Hamad	[6]
1916	The Crisis	Stephen Brice	[6]
1916	The Country That God Forgot	Steve Brant	[6]
1917	Beware of Strangers	John Mentor	[6]
1917	Who Shall Take My Life?	"Big Bill" O'Shaughnessy	[6]
1918	The Hell Cat	Jim Dyke	[6]
1918	The City of Purple Dreams	Daniel Fitzhugh, the derelict	[6]
1918	The Still Alarm	Jack Manley	[6]
1918	Little Orphant Annie	Dave	[6]
1919	The Love That Dares	Perry Risdon
1919	The Railroader	Clive Standish
1919	The Stronger Vow	Pedro Toral	[6]
1919	Shadows	Jack McGoff	[6]
1919	Eve in Exile	John Sheen	[6]
1920	Sagebrush Musketeers		Short[16]
1921	Sheriff of the Mojave		Short[17]
1921	The Death Trap		Short[18]
1921	The Desert Wolf		Short[19]
1921	Lorraine of the Timberlands		Short
1921	Mother o' Dreams		Short
1921	The Honor of Rameriz	Rameriz	Short[20]
1921	The Spirit of the Lake		Short[21]
1921	The Heart of Doreon	Doreon	Short[22]
1921	The Secret of Butte Ridge		Short[23]
1922	Two Kinds of Women	Bud Lee	[6]
1923	Is Divorce a Failure?	Smith	[6]
1923	Thundering Dawn	Gordon Van Brock	[6]
1923	Tipped Off	Dan Grogan
1924	The Plunderer	Bill Presbey	[6]
1924	Little Robinson Crusoe	Captain Dynes	[6]
1925	Beyond the Border	Nick Perdue	[6]
1925	The Night Ship	Captain Jed Hobbs
1925	Paths to Paradise	Callahan	[6]
1926	Siberia	Alexis Vetkin
1926	My Own Pal	August Deering	[6]
1926	Her Honor, the Governor	Richard Palmer	[6]
1926	The Hidden Way	Bill	[6]
1926	3 Bad Men	"Bull" Stanley	[6]
1926	Jim the Conqueror	Sam Black	[6]
1926	The Desert's Toll	Jasper	[6]
1926	The Third Degree	Daredevil Daly	[6]
1926	No Man's Gold		[6]
1927	When a Man Loves	Captain of the convict boat	[6]
1927	Tracked by the Police	Sandy Sturgeon	[6]
1927	The Adventurous Soul	Captain Svenson
1927	Eyes of the Totem	Philip La Rue	[6]
1927	Old San Francisco	Captain Stoner	[6]
1927	Hills of Kentucky	Ben Harley	[6]
1928	Land of the Silver Fox	Butch Nelson	[6]
1928	The Law and the Man	Dan Creedon
1928	Vultures of the Sea		[24]
1929	In Old Arizona	Cowpuncher	[6]
1929	The Wagon Master	Jake Lynch	[6]
1930	River's End	Shotwell	[6]
1930	The Utah Kid	Butch	[6]
1931	Ten Nights in a Barroom	Simon Slady	[6]
1931	The Phantom of the West	Bud Landers
1931	King of the Wild	Harris

Director

Year	Title	Notes
1910	The Sanitarium
1914	Caryl of the Mountains	[5]
1915	The Heart of Paro	[5]
1915	The Octopus	Also screenwriter[5]
1915	His Fighting Blood	[5]
1915	The Blood Seedling	[5]
1915	A Sultana of the Desert	[5]
1915	The Lion's Mate	[6]

References

1. "World War I Draft Registration- Paul William Santschi". Family Search. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
2. "1900 Census Record-Paul Santschi family, ED 59 Center Township Kokomo city Ward 5, Howard County, Indiana". Family Search. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
3. "Margarethe Santschi remarriage to Charles Albertus Cole, 1935-1937 Volume 19, Indiana Marriages 1811-2007, Tipton County". Family Search. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
4. Erish, Andrew A. (2012). Col. William N. Selig, The Man Who Invented Hollywood. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292754379.
5. Katz, Ephraim (1998). Klein, Fred; Nolen, Ronald Dean (eds.). The Film Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. pp. 1208–1209. ISBN 0-06-273492-X.
6. "Thomas Santschi". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
7. "Ben's Kid". Silent Progressive Film List. Silent Era. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
8. "Pride of the Range". Silent Progressive Film List. Silent Era. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
9. "The Count of Monte Cristo". Silent Progressive Film List. Silent Era. Archived from the original on January 19, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
10. "Monte Cristo". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
11. "Release flier for A Broken Spur". Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
12. "Release flier for A Crucial Test". Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
13. "Release flier for Euchered". Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
14. "Release flier for Alas! Poor Yorick". Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
15. "Press sheet for Wamba, a Child of the Jungle". Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
16. "Film Capital Production Notes". Camera!. November 13, 1920. p. 4.
17. "Production Notes". Camera!. January 29, 1921. p. 9.
18. "Cyrus J. Williams presents Tom Santschi in 'The Death Trap'". Motion Picture News. March 5, 1921. p. 1808.
19. "Short Subject of Importance". Moving Picture World. April 2, 1921. p. 513.
20. "Santschi Series". Moving Picture World. October 15, 1921. p. 779.
21. "All Star Cast with Santschi". Moving Picture World. October 29, 1921. p. 1062.
22. "Santschi Series". Motion Picture News. October 29, 1921. p. 2313.
23. "Film Capital Production Notes". Camera!. June 4, 1921. p. 4.
24. "Vultures of the Sea". Silent Progressive Film List. Silent Era. Retrieved December 22, 2016.

External links

• Tom Santschi at IMDb
• Findagrave.com