Frank Currier — A Veteran Player (1926) 🇺🇸

Born of actor parents in Concord, New Hampshire, Frank Currier received his education in Boston, and considers it his home town. His former wife, Ada Dow, trained and developed Julia Marlowe, and it was he who selected her stage name — her own was Fanny Buff.

When he was only three years old, his mother introduced him to the stage in Ireland As It Was. In 1860, he became call boy at the Continental Theater in Boston. He did his first “bit” in Rolla, which starred Edwin Forrest, the tragedian. During the same year, he played in The Shaughran with Dion Boucicault at Wallace’s Theater, New York, and then went on the road with that play. In 1880, he went to Leadville, Colorado, with a stock company from New York.

His screen career is almost as varied. He began with Vitagraph in 1913, and stayed in pictures for a year. But he went back on to the stage for a time and when he returned to pictures, it was with Metro.

Mr. Currier has appeared in many of the biggest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films during the past year, and is regarded as one of the most lovable characters on the screen. His first big success was scored in “Revelation,” although his most recent triumph was in Reginald Barker’s production, “The White Desert.” He plays the rôle of Arrius in “Ben-Hur.”

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, January 1926