DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Jennings
Born	DeWitt Clarke Jennings July 21, 1871(1871-07-21) Cameron, Missouri, USA
Died	March 1, 1937(1937-03-01) (aged 65) Hollywood, California, USA
Other names	De Witt C. Jennings De Witt Jennings DeWitt C. Jennings
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1915 - 1937

DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American film actor. He appeared in 153 films between 1915 and 1937.

Biography

He was born in Cameron, Missouri on June 21, 1871 to Georgia S. and Oliver A. Jennings.^[1][2] In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California on March 1, 1937.^[3]

Selected filmography

• The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
• Out of Luck (1923)
• Blinky (1923)
• The Desert Outlaw (1924)
• The Mystic (1925)
• Don't (1925)
• While London Sleeps (1926)
• Exit Smiling (1926)
• Two Arabian Knights (1927)
• Great Mail Robbery (1927)
• The Valiant (1929)
• Outside the Law (1930)
• The Squaw Man (1931)
• The Deceiver (1931)
• Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
• Little Man, What Now? (1934)
• Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
• Death on the Diamond (1934)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

External links

• DeWitt Jennings at the Internet Movie Database
• DeWitt Jennings at the Internet Broadway Database
• DeWitt Jennings at Find a Grave

References

1. ^ DeWitt C. Jennings, born June 1871 in Missouri; in the 1900 US census in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2. ^ In later years he used 1879 as his birth year. Hollywood actors in their resumes tend to make themselves younger as they age. A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses uses 1872. Who is Who and Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion as well as others use 1879.
3. ^ "DeWitt C. Jennings Dies in Hollywood. Stage and Screen Character Actor 42 Years Started His Career as an Usher". New York Times. March 2, 1937. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B1FFF3E5A157A93C0A91788D85F438385F9. Retrieved 2010-11-02. "Dewitt Clarke Jennings, for forty-two years a colorful figure of the stage and screen and a director in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died at his home here today after a brief illness. He was 65 years of age." 

Persondata
Name	Jennings, DeWitt
Alternative names	Jennings, DeWitt C.; Jennings, De Witt; Jennings, De Witt C.
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	June 21, 1879
Place of birth	Cameron, Missouri, United States
Date of death	March 1, 1937
Place of death	Hollywood, California, United States