Benjamin F. Wilson — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸
Benjamin F. Wilson [Ben F. Wilson], a native of Centerville, Iowa, received his education in that place and, after a short apprenticeship in a Western repertoire organization, came East as a member of the celebrated Spooner Stock company in Brooklyn.
As a member of the Wagenhals and Kemper company he won distinction in the role of Jimsey Smith in Paid in Full.
Mr. Wilson has been an Edison photo-player for many years, and has played so many leading roles of merit, ranging from comedies to powerful dramas that it is impossible to enumerate them.
He achieved universal recognition for his remarkable impersonations in “The Awakening of a Man,” in which he played five distinct parts.
Mr. Wilson is impersonating Cleek in “The Chronicles of Cleek,” and the photo-play goer may well expect the great detective to be a man of unusual power.
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Collection: Motography Magazine, April 1914