H. Cooper Cliffe (1915) 🇺🇸

H. Cooper Cliffe, the eminent English dramatic actor, who has been featured in several Metro feature productions, has just completed work in the new five-part picture, Tables Turned produced by the Rolfe Photo Plays, Inc., in which Emmy Wehlen is starred. Mr. Cliffe is also featured in The Final Judgment, another Rolfe-Metro production now being released, in which Ethel Barrymore appears in the stellar role.

As a dramatic leading man Mr. Cliffe occupies an enviable position, distinctly his own, on both the speaking stage and the screen. He is a direct descendant of the celebrated family of Kembles, and as a young man possessed a wonderful baritone voice. He made his professional debut in grand opera, but after one year at the Covent Garden Sir Henry Irving induced him to take up the dramatic stage. For three years he appeared with Sir Henry at the Lyceum theater, playing juvenile roles. Following his engagement there he became Ellen Terry’s leading man. Then he went to the old Drury Lane, where he was featured in prominent roles for two years.

Mr. Cliffe became a full fledged star playing Shylock, Richard the III, Cardinal Wolsey, Benedick, Dante and other big roles in London and in the provinces. He first came to this country with Mr. and Mrs. Kendall [Madge Kendal | William H. Kendal], playing in New York and on tour. Then he joined E. S. Willard and later appeared with William Faversham in The Squaw Man. He added to his laurels in Everywoman by his artistic creation of the mystic role of Nobody. Mr. Cliffe’s first appearance in motion pictures was with Robert Warwick in The Face in the Moonlight. Then he joined the Rolfe-Metro forces, and was soon in an important role in support of Hamilton Revelle in An Enemy to Society.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915

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see also Francine Larrimore (1915)