Nigel Barrie — Back from Foreign Service (1926) 🇺🇸

Nigel Barrie has seen more foreign service in the films than any actor who has gone abroad in the past few years.

Barrie will be remembered by many fans for his work opposite Marion Davies, Constance Talmadge, Pauline Frederick, Clara Kimball Young, and Katherine MacDonald. Reserve, suavity, and polish, have been the distinguishing features of his work.

When the English, Gaumont company were seeking talent in America for a film called “Fires of Fate,” made in the Sahara desert, they engaged Wanda Hawley and Barrie as the two principals. Miss Hawley remained away only for a film or two, but Barrie stayed on, and signed a year’s contract with the UFA company in Berlin. He also later appeared with a Swedish organization, and during the winter, while working with this company, had the somewhat unique experience of riding ten or fifteen miles to location in the morning in a sleigh. Altogether, he traveled the Continent pretty thoroughly from the Mediterranean to the. Baltic during these foreign productions. Finally, however, a longing for the old familiar environment triumphed and he returned home.

Instead of reentering the lists as a hero, on his return to Hollywood, he has set forth to make a career as a heavy. He has changed his appearance somewhat by raising a mustache. The first rôle in which he will appear is in the Monte Blue starring feature, “Hogan’s Alley.”

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, January 1926