Earle Williams — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Earle Williams, Vitagraph leading man, is a Californian. His father, Augustus P. Williams, was one of the state’s early settlers and emigrated from Booneville, Mo.

Earle attended the Oakland grammar and high schools and his first position was as an office boy prior to entering the Polytechnic College of California.

Mr. Williams’ first theatrical engagement was as utility man in the Baldwin-Melville stock company in New Orleans in 1901. He has appeared in the Frederick Belasco company and the James Neill stock company played with Henry Dixey in The Man on the Box; with Helen Ware in The Third Degree, and has taken prominent parts in many other stage successes.

In time the enforced idleness between theatrical seasons proved irksome to Mr. Williams and he applied to the Vitagraph Company for extra parts.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, September 1914