William Wadsworth — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1912) 🇺🇸

William Wadsworth is the “funny man” of many Edison pictures and, reaching far back in the years, is the foundation for the fine character work which has developed in him the power to move people to wholesome mirth.

He played with Otis Skinner in his early stardom and with James K. Hackett in The Prisoner of Zenda. He was in the original production of Checkers, of The Resurrection, The Woman in the Case, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Straight Road and Annie Russell’s presentation of The Stronger Sex. His role of the burglar in Seven Days was his last New York appearance, thence by special inducement to the Edison company, and success as a picture play comedian.

For comedy is Mr. Wadsworth’s forte and he presents it in a variety of character parts that have won for him an enviable reputation as a fun-maker. “It is to laugh,” when Wadsworth is in the film.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, October 1912