Joseph Cawthorn

b. 29 March 1868, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 21 January 1949, Beverly Hillsides, LA, California, USA. Cawthorn debuted in 1872, and five years afterwards crossed the sea to surface in London’s theater world. He remained in Britain for a time before time for the united states where he produced his Broadway debut in 1898. Among his theater credits will be the musicals The Performing Gal (1899), Fritz In Tammany Hall (1905), The Totally free Lance (1906), The Hoyden (1907, where he sang ‘My Dad’s Wooden Knee’ and ‘That’s Why I Hardly ever Wedded’), and Small Nemo (1908). In 1927, Cawthorn transformed direction, likely to Hollywood where he produced several silent movies before building himself as a trusted character actor, showing up in a lot more than 50 movies. Among his film assignments were Cornelius Truck Horn (Dixiana, 1930), Maxie Schultz (Produced On Broadway aka THE LADY I Produced, 1933), Hans Uppman (Music In The Surroundings, 1934), and Oscar Schmidt (Special Adeline, 1934), Herr ‘Schumie’ Schuman (Naughty Marietta, 1935), August Schultz (Silver Diggers Of 1935), Kleber (Tranquility Street, 1935), as Florenz Ziegfeld’s dad, Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld (THE FANTASTIC Ziegfeld, 1936), Leopold Damrosch (Lillian Russell, 1940), and Silas Harwood (in his last film, The Postman Didn’t Band, 1942). He was wedded to stage and display performer Queenie Vassar. Cawthorn was occasionally acknowledged as Joseph Cawthorne, along with both surnames also as Joe.