King Baggot — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

King Baggot was not always a motion picture star.

In fact, that qualification is a most recent one, considering that until five or six years ago, Baggot had not even appeared in a theatrical production and had no thought of so doing.

He was interested in soccer and gave more time to that than to his duties as clerk in his father’s real estate office in St. Louis. His soccer fame secured him an invitation to appear in a local dramatic performance and after that, himself and everybody else, except his father, felt that the stage was his calling.

He jumped from the amateur to the professional class and his last road work was with “The Wishing Ring,” in which he starred. Harry Saulter, husband of Florence Lawrence, secured him to play in Imp pictures, and his work with Miss Lawrence in “The Awakening of Bess” was his first before the camera.

Mr. Baggot is thirty-four years old.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, February 1913