George Fawcett — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Fate and his ancestors were kind to George Fawcett in bestowing upon him features that once seen are not easily forgotten. Heavily lined and almost leonine in proportions, they can be rigid and hard as they were in “The Old Homestead,” in which he played the role of “Eph Holbrook,” the “just,” or they can be benevolent, jovial, or slyly humorous. But once seen, they are rarely forgotten.

His education fitted him to become either a scientist or a lawyer. He became neither, but on the other hand, when a young man, took up farming. He wrote poetry good enough to be published, and twice destiny seemed to dedicate him to newspaperdom when he wrote lead editorials for a living.

Mr. Fawcett was born on August 25, 1863, in Fairfax County, Virginia. But he is not of the tall and austere type of Southerner. On the contrary he is rather stockily built, with a countenance which, when not being molded to fit some fictional character, is naturally jovial.

He graduated in science and law at the University of Virginia, and notwithstanding his farming and other pursuits, found time to act on the stage with many famous personages.

When the elder Salvini played Othello, Fawcett had the part of Iago in the same play. He was in productions with scores of other celebrities and appeared before audiences in England, as well as the United States.

When Lewis Waller played The Squaw Man, in London, he had an important part in the cast.

He made his debut in motion pictures in 1915. He became a member of the Paramount stock company in May, 1922, but before that appeared as a “free lance” in several pictures produced by that organization. He had also been on the screen in photoplays made by Morosco, Ince, Griffith, Universal, Selig, Fine Arts, Selznick, Artcraft and First National. Three of the pictures he directed were “Little Miss Rebellion,” for Griffith, and in which Dorothy Gish had the star part; “The Deadline at 11,” for Vitagraph, and “Such a Little Queen,” for Realart.

Among some of the successes in which Mr. Fawcett has played prominent roles are “Majesty of the Law,” “The Old Homestead,” “Java Head,” “Ebb Tide,” and “Mr. Billings Spends His Dime.”

Mr. Fawcett is five feet nine and a half inches tall, and weighs 180 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He is married and has one daughter, Margaret, 23 years old.

Although working in Hollywood, he says his home is where his wife and daughter live, in New York City.

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)