Popular Picture Personalities — Buckley Starkey (1917) 🇺🇸

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Starkey, Buckley. Born in Manchester, England. English parentage. He is five feet six inches tall, and weighs 127 pounds. Dark complexion, dark brown hair and deep blue eyes.

For fourteen years he played on the dramatic stage, appearing in musical comedy, drama and vaudeville. He came to America with his parents when a little more than a year old, and has visited every part of the country.

About five years ago he made his screen debut in From Pen to Pick a Pathé picture, directed by Leo Wharton. He has also been with Éclair and The World, but is now free lancing. He was Blinkey Davis in Alias Jimmy Valentine Porky McCoy in The Boss; Skein in the World’s Great Snare, and Razloff, the spy, in Hearts in Exile.

He is a devotee of pocket billiards, is fond of a good boxing bout when he can find one and likes anything there promising novelty or excitement, for his idea of a good time is action.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1917

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