Murdock MacQuarrie — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Murdock McQuarrie sounds Scotch, but he isn’t; he’s San Franciscan.

Just now he a Kinemacolorite by merit of his ability to play leads and has been with the nature-color company almost since its inception.

He was but twelve years old when he began his dramatic work, playing the part of the waif in the Lights of London. For three years following this beginning, he assumed the animated role of cowpuncher on his uncle’s ranch in Arizona, then he deserted and returned to the stage, assuming juvenile parts at the Alcazar stock, San Francisco.

For sixteen weeks he was leading man for Clay Clemment in Honolulu, and, returning to America, decided that New York should thereafter be his home. There he appeared with E. S. Willard, Jefferson and others and signed for four years of work for William A. Brady.

That finished, he turned to the picture world via Kinemacolor entertainment.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, May 1913