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Frank Campeau
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Actor Born: December 14, 1864 in Detroit, MI Death: November 5, 1943 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:American character actor "Frank Campeau" was the perfect skulking villain, whether dressed as a millionaire or a Bowery henchman. Short, wiry, and with a face like a dyspeptic weasel, Campeau was "Runyonesque" before there was a "Damon Runyon". Actor/producer "Douglas Fairbanks" capitalized on Campeau's untrustworthy demeanor by casting the actor in several bad-guy roles. In Fairbanks' first United Artists release, 1919's "His Majesty the American", Campeau is on hand as an outwardly respectable but shifty-eyed diplomat, while in Fairbank's second UA picture "Til the Clouds Roll By" (1919) he is identified only as "The Jilted Villain". Two decades later, a seedier-looking Campeau was sneaking through alleys in such talkies as "A Soldier's Plaything" (1930) and "Everything's Rosie" (1931). "Frank Campeau" retired from films at age 74, after completing a starving-peasant bit in the lavish MGM... Full Biography
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