R. Henry King in “Fortune Photoplay” (1917) 🇺🇸
R. Henry King, the distinguished actor-director, is featured together with Lillian West in Vengeance of the Dead, a forthcoming Fortune Photoplay, the new series of four-reel dramas being distributed by the General Film Company. Mr. King is a good deal of a philanthropist and delights in boosting others to success.
For this reason he picked out Lillian West to play opposite him in Vengeance of the Dead and Miss West is said to have achieved a personal triumph in the role of Lilas Velso, a Russian ballet dancer.
Mr. King directs and plays the leads also in all of the picture plays in which he appears.
He has been with the Balboa Company for many years and is now working exclusively on Fortune Photoplays.
He was born in Christiansburg, Va., and first came into prominence at the age of seventeen after Graduating from Roanoke College. He decided to take up a stage career and appeared in various stock companies, there securing the training which has stood him in good stead in his film career.
Later he appeared in several New York productions and first played in pictures at the Lubin Studio in Philadelphia. When he joined Balboa he was at once featured in Who Pays. He also directed the Mary Sunshine series for this company. He will direct and play in a number of Fortune Photoplays.
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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1917
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