Earl Metcalfe Explained

Earle Metcalfe
Birth Name:Earle Keeney Metcalfe
Birth Date:11 March 1889
Birth Place:Newport, Kentucky
Death Place:Burbank, California
Other Names:Earle Metcalfe
Earl Metcalf
Earle Metcalf
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:1912–1928

Earl Metcalfe (March 11, 1889 – January 26, 1928) was an American actor.

Biography

Born in 1889, Metcalfe appeared in the films The Fortune Hunter, While New York Sleeps, What Women Will Do, White Eagle, While Justice Waits, The Great Night, Look Your Best, Skid Proof, Fair Week, The Silent Accuser, Silk Stocking Sal, The Man Without a Country, The Ship of Souls, Partners Again, With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail, The Midnight Sun, The Call of the Klondike, The Midnight Message, The Mystery Club, Atta Boy, Love's Blindness, Remember, The Notorious Lady, and The Devil's Saddle, among others.[1]

In a movie fight with actor/director Joseph Kaufman, Kaufman accidentally lost some teeth during the filming.[2]

Metcalfe died during a flight in a biplane in 1928 over Glendale or Burbank California.[3] He had taken up flying as a recreation and was undergoing pilot training. Various sources have Metcalfe falling from the airplane or jumping from it, indicating a suicide. The plane is reported to have been looping-the-loop or in a barrel roll, two different aerial maneuvers.[4] The pilot Roy Wilson was unharmed.

Partial filmography

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Earl Metcalfe . AllMovie . 2019-04-15.
  2. "In the Studios", New York Daily Mirror, May 5, 1915
  3. http://findagrave.com/memorial/205108081/earl-keeney-metcalfe Earl Metcalfe at findagrave.com
  4. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1928&date2=1928&proxtext=earle+metcalfe&x=0&y=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic Various newspapers reporting Earle Metcalfe's demise