Edward Coxen — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Edward Coxen was born in London and came to the states and San Francisco when he was eighteen months old. It was in the west that he grew up, attending school at San Francisco and Berkeley, experimenting in the departments of various callings but always having at heart the desire to go on the stage.

His efforts, on leaving school, he devoted to prospecting in the Sierra mountains and Nevada, then turned his attention to the practice of civil engineering. So long as a problem was unsolved it arrested the Coxen attention, and it was not long before that calling was discarded and Mr. Coxen determined to realize his desire to go on the stage.

It was after the San Francisco fire that the opportunity came and the one-time prospector and civil engineer became the successful actor.

Curiosity guided him into the picture world, and he claims there is no other attraction can take him out of it.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, October 1913