Popular Picture Personalities — George S. Trimble (1917) 🇺🇸

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Trimble, George Samuel. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Irish parentage. Five feet eleven and one-half inches tall, and weighs 260 pounds. Iron gray hair, brown eyes, dark complexion.

Mr. Trimble made his stage debut in 1892 with the Augustin Daly company. For three years he was a minstrel, with Haverley and the Gorman Brothers. Then came several seasons in light operatic productions with Pauline Hall, and then back to the drama with the Warde and James, Lewis Morrison, and Mansfield [Frederick Warde | Louis James | Richard Mansfield]. For six years he was featured as Mephisto in the Morrison Faust. He has played in London in The College Widow, and in the Hawaiian tour of Nance O’Neil.

His first photoplay appearance was in 1909 in “The District Attorney” [Transcriber’s Note: This probably refers to “The District Attorney (1910)”]. In the past eight years he has been with Lubin [Siegmund Lubin], Selig [William Nicholas Selig], Famous Players, Fox, World, Metro, and is now occupied as secretary of the Fraternity Films, Inc.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1917

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