James W. Morrison — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

James Morrison’s [James W. Morrison] advent into motion pictures was neither by accident nor for want of something else to do.

His career on the legitimate stage was successful but it did not offer him the right opportunity for the work he liked best — pantomime. Mr. Morrison was born and raised in Mattoon, Ill., and attended the public schools of that city. He later entered the University of Chicago, but left prior to receiving a degree.

Theatricals then claimed his attention and he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. After that he became associated with the Alberta Players in a vaudeville pantomimic sketch, and later appeared in Brown of Harvard and other road shows, the Marlowe and College Stock companies of Chicago, and different engagements in vaudeville.

His success in Vitagraph pictures was instantaneous.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, September 1914