![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: July 7, 1887 in Red Oak, IA Death: October 21, 1971 in Palmdale, CA Biography:Looking for all the world like a beardless Rumpelstiltskin, actor "Raymond Hatton" utilized his offbeat facial features and gift for mimicry in vaudeville, where he appeared from the age of 12 onward. In films from 1914, Hatton was starred or co-starred in several of the early "Cecil B. DeMille" productions, notably "The Whispering Chorus" (1917), in which the actor delivered a bravura performance as a man arrested for murdering himself. Though he played a vast array of characters in the late teens and early 1920s, by 1926 Hatton had settled into rubeish character roles. He was teamed with "Wallace Beery" in several popular Paramount comedies of the late silent era, notably "Behind the Front" (1926) and "Now We're in the Air" (1927). Curiously, while Beery's career skyrocketed in the 1930s, Hatton's stardom diminished, though he was every bit as talented as his former partner. In the 1930s and 1940s,... Full Biography
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