Webster Campbell Now With Vitagraph (1916) 🇺🇸
Webster Campbell is one of the latest members of the Vitagraph stock company and is now in pictures at the Hollywood studios. Few players of his age have attained so enviable a reputation in a brief screen career, and few leading men receive more letters from their admirers.
Mr. Campbell was born in Kansas City, January 25, 1892. He is of French ancestry, and many of his relatives are Canadians. His early education was received in public schools and in the Central High School of Kansas City, and, although he spent three years at Michigan University at Ann Arbor, he left before obtaining his degree, to take up the theatrical profession. He started his stage career as a member of a stock company at Kansas City and then travelled with a road company to the Pacific Coast. The show which he was in closed in Los Angeles. He was engaged by the Vitagraph Company, and in their films has attained distinction as a screen player of ability. He is a prolific writer of photoplays and has sold over twenty scripts. He is unmarried, fond of outdoor sports, and is a favorite among his fellow-players at the Hollywood studio of the Vitagraph.
He has appeared in He Got Himself a Wife, Bittersweet, The Hoyden, Pansy’s Papas, and is now working in a three-reeler soon to be released.
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Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1916
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