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Sam de Grasse
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Actor Born: 1875 in Bathurst, NB, Canada Death: November 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:For the first few years after his entry into films in 1912, the granite-featured "Sam DeGrasse" convincingly played romantic leads; he also was seen in dignified character roles, such as Senator Charles Sumner in Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) (A Southerner, Griffith was opposed to Sumner's reconstruction activities after the Civil War, but depicts the Senator as a unwitting hypocrite rather than an outright heavy). It took the keen eye of actor/producer Douglas Fairbanks Sr. to tap the evil lurking within DeGrasse. Fairbanks first used DeGrasse in "The Good Bad Man" (1915), and continued employing the versatile villain for the next eleven years in such tongue-in-cheek adventure fare as "Wild and Woolly" (1917), "Robin Hood" (1922) (as Prince John) and "The Black Pirate" (1926). Outside of his work with Fairbanks, De Grasse appeared minus his usual swarthy makeup in Von Stroheim's "Blind... Full Biography
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