- Carter DeHaven
Carter DeHaven (birthname: Francis O'Callaghan b.
October 5 1886 inChicago ,Illinois - d.July 20 1977 inWoodland Hills, Los Angeles, California ) was a movie and stage actor, movie director and writer.DeHaven started his career on
vaudeville and started acting in movies in 1915. A 1927 short,Character Studies , purports to display DeHaven'squick-change abilities, as he transforms himself in seconds into the spitting image of various major film stars of the era:Buster Keaton ,Harold Lloyd ,Douglas Fairbanks ,Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and 13-year oldJackie Coogan ; this was the only film in which Keaton and Lloyd appeared together, and also marked Keaton's last film appearance with Arbuckle, his former partner.DeHaven went on to work with
Charlie Chaplin , as assistant director on Modern Times (1936) and assistant producer forThe Great Dictator (1940).He was the father of actress
Gloria DeHaven , who made her first screen appearance in Modern Times. Both Carter and Gloria DeHaven have their own stars on theHollywood Walk of Fame .Carter DeHaven died in 1977 at age 90 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in
Glendale, California .* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214924/ Carter DeHaven at Internet Movie Database]
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