King Baggot — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

King Baggot, one of the most popular of motion picture actors who appears in dramatic productions of the Imp company, is a peer in his profession.

Playing leading roles in hundreds of pictures, and photographed in the character of a millionaire, pauper, philanthropist, miser, minister, crook, nonagenarian and youth, his appearance in a picture immediately labels it as one of quality in the estimation of the public.

King Baggot was born on November 7, 1879, in St. Louis, Mo. His education was directed along lines entirely foreign to his ultimate profession.

Despite his father’s protests against his desertion of the real estate business, Baggot turned toward the stage and played at Moener’s Garden in St. Louis throughout one summer. His first visit to New York City was as a member of the cast in The Queen of the Highway.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1914