Maurice Costello
- Acting
- February 20, 1877 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- October 29, 1950
Biography
From Wikipedia Maurice George Costello (February 22, 1877 – October 29, 1950) was an American prominent vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s, who later played a principal role in early American films, as both a leading man, supporting player and a director. Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants Ellen and Thomas Costello. He appeared in his first motion picture in 1905, in which he had the honour of appearing in the first serious film to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes in the movie Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in which Costello played the title role. He continued to work for Vitagraph, being a member of the first motion picture stock company ever formed, playing opposite Florence Turner. Among some of his best known pictures are A Tale of Two Cities, The Man Who Couldn't Beat God and For the Honor of the Family. After an absence of some years he returned to the screen. He was married to actress Mae Costello (née Altschuk). His descendants include two daughters, actresses Dolores Costello and Helene Costello, a grandson John Drew Barrymore, and a great granddaughter Drew Barrymore. He was one of the world's first leading men in early American cinema, but like a lot of other silent screen stars, he found the transition to "talkies" extremely difficult, and his leading man status was over. However, Costello was a trouper, and continued to appear in movies, often in small roles and bit parts, right up until his death in 1950.
Known for
Filmography
- Practically Yours · Senate Stenographer (uncredited)
- The Climax · Audience Member (Uncredited)
- A Fig Leaf for Eve · Nightclub Patron
- Du Barry Was a Lady · Passerby (uncredited)
- The Glass Key · Card Player (uncredited)
- Ride 'Em Cowboy · Rodeo Spectator with Martin Manning (uncredited)
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan · Ringsider at Fight (uncredited)
- Lady from Louisiana · Edwards
- Citizen Kane · Extra (uncredited)
- A Man Betrayed · Club Inferno Patron (uncredited)
- Tin Pan Alley · (uncredited)
- Third Finger, Left Hand · Man at Railroad Station
- Foreign Correspondent · Man (uncredited)
- The Sea Hawk · Man Carrying Spear
- All This, and Heaven Too · Extra (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man · Broker
- Johnny Apollo · Extra (uncredited)
- The Ghost Comes Home · Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
- Alice in Movieland · Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
- The Roaring Twenties · Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · Diggs (uncredited)
- Five Little Peppers And How They Grew · Hart
- Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever · Man in Audience (uncredited)
- It's a Wonderful World · Guest (uncredited)
- Happily Buried · Board Member
- Comet Over Broadway · Actor at Dress Rehearsal (uncredited)
- A Man to Remember · Town Councilor (uncredited)
- Hollywood Boulevard · Director in Commissary
- Search for Beauty · Health Acres Guest (uncredited)
- The Movie Album · (archive footage)
- Eagle of the Night
- The Wagon Show · Colonel Beldan
- Camille · Armand's father
- The Shamrock and the Rose · Father O'Brien
- Johnny Get Your Hair Cut · Baxter Ryan
- The False Alarm
- The Last Alarm · The Captain of the Fire Brigade - Tom's Father
- The Mad Marriage · Walter Butler
- The Story Without a Name · The Cripple
- Love of Women · Mr. Redfield
- Virtuous Liars · Josiah Wright
- Week End Husbands · John Keane
- Roulette · Ben Corcoran
- Fog Bound · Deputy Brown
- Man and Wife · Caleb Perkins
- The Glimpses of the Moon · Fred Gillow
- None So Blind · Russell Mortimer
- Deadline at Eleven · Paul Klocke
- The Tower of Jewels · Fraser Grimstead
- The Cambric Mask · John Sark
- The Captain's Captain · Lawford Tapp
- The Crimson Stain Mystery · Harold Stanley
- The Crown Prince's Double · Prince Oscar / Barry Lawrence
- Rags and the Girl · Tom Raine
- The Heart of Jim Brice · Jim Brice, Director
- The Evil Men Do · David Horton, Director
- Too Much Burglar · Tom Perry, Director
- The Peacemaker · Self
- The Mysterious Lodger · Ralph Brent - the Mysterious Lodger, Director
- The Moonstone of Fez · Schuyler Van Norden, Director
- Etta of the Footlights · Lord Wentworth, Director
- Iron and Steel · John Smardon, Director
- Some Steamer Scooping · Baron Lafitte, Director
- Fellow Voyagers · Tom Blake, Director
- The Hindoo Charm · Sir Edward Tilbury, Director
- The Lonely Princess · Endicott, an American Millionaire, Director
- A Princess of Bagdad · Seyn - the Cobbler
- The Sale of a Heart · Charles Lindgard, Director
- Jack's Chrysanthemum · Director
- Delayed Proposals · Jack Hardy
- Getting Up a Practice · Dr. Lyons, Director
- What a Change of Clothes Did · John Mason, Director
- The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance · Lambert Chase, Director
- It All Came Out in the Wash · Barry Wall, Director
- When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet · Henry Ford
- As You Like It · Orlando
- Bobby's Father · Dick Ramsay - Bobby's Father
- The Adventure of the Italian Model · Lambert Chase - the Detective
- A Vitagraph Romance · Maurice Costello
- The Loyalty of Sylvia · Dr. Dudley Lawrence