Probably remembered in history as one of the cast of Our American Cousin, that played at Ford’s Theatre on the night of Lincoln’s assassination. He went on to have a successful career on stage and in silent films.

KNOWN FOR

Old Dutch
1915
Passers-By
1920
The World's Champion
1922
Kindred of the Dust
1922
The Little Miss Brown
1915
The Battle Cry of Peace
1915
To Have and to Hold
1922
The Deep Purple
1920
The Yosemite Trail
Dream Street
1921
Peacock Alley
1922
John Smith
1922

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
13
1922
John Smith
as Butler (as W.J. Ferguson)
1922
Kindred of the Dust
as Mr. Daney
1922
The World's Champion
as Butler
1922
Peacock Alley
as Alex Smith
1922
To Have and to Hold
as Jeremy Sparrow
1921
Dream Street
as Gypsy's Father
1920
Passers-By
as Pine, the Butler
1920
The Deep Purple
as Pop Clark
1915
The Fatal Card
as Jim Dixon
1915
The Battle Cry of Peace
as Abraham Lincoln
1915
The Little Miss Brown
as Uncle
1915
Old Dutch
as John Rockmorgan
The Yosemite Trail
as Peter Blunt