Vincent Coleman

Vincent Coleman

Infobox actor
name = FULLPAGENAME


imagesize = 150px
birthdate = birth date|1900|2|16|mf=y
birthplace = Louisiana, U.S.
deathdate = death date and age|1971|10|26|1900|2|16|mf=y
deathplace = Los Angeles, California U.S.
othername = Willie B. Coleman
yearsactive = 1912–1923

Vincent Coleman (February 16, 1900October 26, 1971) was an American stage and film actor of the silent film era of the late 1910s and early 1920s.

Born in Louisiana, Vincent Coleman began his acting career while still a young boy; touring the United States with the Cecil Spooner stock theater company. Occasionally credited in the early years of his career as Willie B. Coleman, he made the transition to film in the 1912 Frank Montgomery drama short "The Junior Officer" at age twelve opposite film actors Hobart Bosworth and Camille Astor before returning to Broadway at the age of sixteen to appear in the 1917 play "Difference in Gods". Coleman then returned to filmmaking to play a variety of juvenile roles for such film studios as Fox, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, First National and Paramount opposite such actors as Corinne Griffith, Mae Murray, Constance Talmadge and Ned Sparks.

At the beginning of the 1920s, Hollywood film producers took notice of the handsome, fair, young actor and saw in Coleman a possible "All American" matinee idol to counter the "Latin lover" types such as Ramón Novarro, Antonio Moreno and Rudolf Valentino that were becoming increasingly popular amongst the nation's theater-goers. In 1919 however, Coleman's further foray into moving pictures was a less than glamorous role in the anti-syphilis propaganda film "Scarlet Trail", which was inspired by the World War I era for-men-only medical pamphlet "Don't Take a Chance". Coleman was eventually groomed by the studios to become a leading man and had starring roles in the 1921 George Fawcett directed remake of the 1914 Mary Pickford comedy film "Such A Little Queen" and "The Magic Cup", released the same year before returning to Broadway in July of 1921 to star in the Sam H. Harris produced play "Nice People" opposite renowned stage actress Tallulah Bankhead.

In 1923 Coleman appeared in the independently produced "epic" film "Salome" as Herod, opposite actress Diana Allen. The film proved to be a colossal financial disappointmet however and Coleman's film career never recovered and the young actor became disillusioned with film. Coleman would make only two more motion pictures (both released in 1923); "Has The World Gone Mad!" with Hedda Hopper and Elinor Fair and the comedy "The Purple Highway" starring Monte Blue, Madge Kennedy and Pedro de Cordoba.

After retiring from films at the age of twenty-two, Vincent Coleman would concentrate further on his stage career—appearing alongside such notable actors as Beau Brummel and Arnold Daly.

Vincent Coleman died in Los Angeles, California in 1971 at the age of seventy.

Filmography

* "The Purple Highway" (1923)
* "Has the World Gone Mad!" (1923)
* "Salome" (1923)
* "Divorce Coupons" (1922)
* "Fascination" (1922)
* "Such a Little Queen" (1921)
* "The Magic Cup" (1921)
* "Princess Jones" (1921)
* "Good References" (1920)
* "Partners of the Night" (1920)
* "For the Freedom of Ireland" (1920)
* "Should a Husband Forgive?" (1919)
* "Scarlet Trail" (1919)
* "The Law of Nature" (1919)
* "The Prodigal Wife" (1918)
* "The Scarlet Trail" (1918)
* "The Junior Officer" (1912)

External links/References

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* [http://silentladies.com/BColeman.html Vincent Coleman at Silent Ladies & Gents]
* [http://movies.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=125749 Vincent Coleman filmography at MSN Movies]
* Vincent Coleman at [http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=1&TBL=PN&Type=CA&ID=151334 AFI Catalog, Silent Films]


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