Dell Henderson
Acting
Born 1877-07-04
Died 1956-12-02
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
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George Delbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film.
Born in the Southwestern Ontario city of St. Thomas, Dell Henderson started his acting career on the stage, but appeared in his first movie Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court already in 1908. Henderson was a frequent associate of film pioneer D.W. Griffith since 1909 and appeared in numerous of his early shorts in Hollywood. He also acted on a less prolific basis in the movies of producer Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studios. In addition to acting, Henderson also directed nearly 200 silent films between 1911 and 1928. Most of those films are forgotten or lost, but he also directed movies with silent stars like Harry Carey and Roscoe Arbuckle. Henderson also worked as a writer on numerous screenplays.
After retiring from directing in 1927, Henderson turned to acting full-time and played important supporting roles in King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) and as General Marmaduke Pepper in Show People (1928). The advent of sound film damaged his acting career, and he often had to play smaller roles. In the 1930s, the comedic character actor appeared on several occasions as a comic foil for such comedians as The Three Stooges, W. C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy. He often played somewhat pompous figures like judges, businessmen, detectives or mayors. Modern audiences will remember Henderson as annoyed hospital president Dr. Graves in The Three Stooges film Men in Black and the put-upon chaperone in the Little Rascals film Choo-Choo!. He also appeared as a Night Court Judge in Laurel and Hardy's Our Relations (1936) and as a friendly Car salesman in Leo McCarey's drama Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). Henderson ended his film career after numerous small roles in 1950.
Henderson died of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 79. He was married with actress Florence Lee until his death, they made several silent films together.
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Acting
46 credits
Show People
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Awful Truth
Wells Fargo
Make Way for Tomorrow
Love Affair
Undercurrent
The Crowd
The Major and the Minor
Annie Get Your Gun
Once Upon a Honeymoon
The Champ
Young People
The Texas Rangers
Fifth Avenue Girl
Hot Tip
Du Barry Was a Lady
Slightly Dangerous
Fast Work
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Stranger on the Third Floor
Choo-Choo!
Frontier Marshal
His Trust
3 Kids and a Queen
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Men with Wings
Main Street After Dark
You're Telling Me!
We Who Are About to Die
The Sunbeam
The Girl of the Golden West
Diamond Jim
The Missing Juror
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Getting Gertie's Garter
The Ghost
The Daring Young Man
The Big Brain
Artists & Models
A Knight of the Road
The Mystery Man
Little Big Shot
The Patsy
Ruggles of Red Gap
Directing
12 credits
My Wife
Battling Brewster
The Shark
Rolling Stones
Wife and Auto Trouble
Highbrow Love
Pa Says
Black and White
The Plumber
Newly Rich
Red Hicks Defies the World
Ambrose's Fury
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Writing
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