Roland Bottomley

Roland Bottomley
Bottomley in A Man's Home (1921)
Born	September 23, 1880 Liverpool, England
Died	January 5, 1947(1947-01-05) (aged 66) New York City, US
Resting place	Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York
Occupation	actor
Years active	1913-1944

Roland Bottomley (1880-1947)^[1] was a British born American stage and film actor from Liverpool, England. Some sources have him born in 1878 and others in 1879.^[2]^[3] He came to America circa 1913 and settled in California. He first made movies for the Kalem Company. By the 1920s he acted at Paramount, Fox, Universal and for Thomas H. Ince. After his last film in 1925 he returned to Broadway for the remainder of his career. Bottomley died in New York at the beginning of 1947.

Selected filmography

The Green Cloak (1915)
The Net of Deceit (1915)*short
The Grip of Evil (1916)
The Neglected Wife (1917)
The Devil (1921)
The Charming Deceiver (1921)
A Man's Home (1921)
Modern Marriage (1923)
Does It Pay? (1923)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924)
Enticement (1925
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925)

References

^ Who Was Who on Screen p.46 2nd Edition c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt ..ISBN 0-8352-0914-8
^ Silent Film Necrology, p.55 2nd Edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana ..ISBN 0-7864-1059-0
^ American and British Theatrical Biography, p.125 c.1979 by J. P. Wearing ..ISBN 0-8108-1201-0