Kempton Greene — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Kempton Greene’s years of service with the Lubin company number three.

He had an inconspicuous beginning; he says so himself. And it all came about because he chose not to leave the city on one of his vacations. Instead, he went with a friend to Philadelphia and there got a chance to play small part s with the Lubin company.

When the summer and autumn had passed he was still there; and then Mr. Terwilliger gave him a role in “The Cry of the Blood.” Last winter he was chosen to go to St. Augustine where he played a number of important parts to the accompaniment, many times, of unforgettable risks.

Wayward sons, dissolute brothers and bad brothers generally, comprise the variety of roles that seek him especially. “But my ambition is beyond all these varieties,” says Mr. Greene. “It is to abandon acting entirely and produce light comedies.”

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Collection: Motography Magazine, October 1914