Fred Santley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fred Santley

American actor

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1887

Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Date of Death: 14-May-1953

Profession: stage actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Fred Santley

  • Fred Santley (November 20, 1887 – May 14, 1953), also known variously as Freddie Santley, Fredric Santley, Frederick Santley, Frederic Santley, and Fredric M.
  • Santley, was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras, as well as an actor on the Broadway stage.
  • Born in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 20, 1887, as Frederic Mansfield, the son of Laurene Santley, and the stepson of stage actor Eugene Santley.
  • He was the brother of filmmaker and stage actor Joseph Santley, both of whom adopted the surname of their stepfather as their stage name.
  • He would make his acting debut in a 1907 short, Pony Express, and would continue to make shorts throughout the 1910s and 1920s.
  • In addition, he would appear in numerous plays during this period, including more than a dozen Broadway productions.He would make his feature film debut with a small role in 1930's Leathernecking, a musical comedy starring Irene Dunne.
  • He would appear in over 90 more feature films during his almost 25-year career.
  • Some of the more notable films he appeared in were: Anything Goes (1936), starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman; the 1937 Tyrone Power vehicle, Alexander's Ragtime Band; the Michael Curtiz film Yankee Doodle Dandy (1943), starring James Cagney; 1946's Night and Day, the Cole Porter biopic starring Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, and Monty Woolley; Vincente Minelli's Father of the Bride (1950), starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor; and the 1951 comedy, Angels in the Outfield.
  • His final appearance would be in the big budget musical, The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953), which would be released after his death.
  • Santley would die on May 14, 1953, in Los Angeles, California.

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