Maurice Costello
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From Wikipedia Maurice George Costello (February 22, 1877 – October 29, 1950) was an American prominent vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s, who later played a principal role in early American films, as both a leading man, supporting player and a director. Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants Ellen and Thomas Costello. He appeared in his first motion picture in 1905, in which he had the honour of appearing in the first serious film to feature the cha...
Known For
Citizen Kane
Extra (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Diggs (uncredited)
Foreign Correspondent
Man (uncredited)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Ringsider at Fight (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk
Man Carrying Spear
All This, and Heaven Too
Extra (uncredited)
It's a Wonderful World
Guest (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Filmography
Practically Yours
1944
as Senate Stenographer (uncredited)
The Climax
1944
as Audience Member (Uncredited)
A Fig Leaf for Eve
1944
as Nightclub Patron
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
as Passerby (uncredited)
The Glass Key
1942
as Card Player (uncredited)
A Man Betrayed
1941
as Club Inferno Patron (uncredited)
Lady from Louisiana
1941
as Edwards
Citizen Kane
1941
as Extra (uncredited)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
as Ringsider at Fight (uncredited)
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1941
as Rodeo Spectator with Martin Manning (uncredited)
Alice in Movieland
1940
as Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Extra (uncredited)
Edison, the Man
1940
as Broker
Foreign Correspondent
1940
as Man (uncredited)
Tin Pan Alley
1940
as (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Man Carrying Spear
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
as Man at Railroad Station
Johnny Apollo
1940
as Extra (uncredited)
The Ghost Comes Home
1940
as Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
1939
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
It's a Wonderful World
1939
as Guest (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
as Diggs (uncredited)
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939
as Hart
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939
as Man in Audience (uncredited)
Happily Buried
1939
as Board Member
A Man to Remember
1938
as Town Councilor (uncredited)
Comet Over Broadway
1938
as Actor at Dress Rehearsal (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Director in Commissary
Search for Beauty
1934
as Health Acres Guest (uncredited)
The Movie Album
1932
as (archive footage)
The Wagon Show
1928
as Colonel Beldan
Eagle of the Night
1928
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927
as Baxter Ryan
Camille
1927
as Armand's father
The Shamrock and the Rose
1927
as Father O'Brien
The Last Alarm
1926
as The Captain of the Fire Brigade - Tom's Father
The False Alarm
1926
The Mad Marriage
1925
as Walter Butler
The Story Without a Name
1924
as The Cripple
Roulette
1924
as Ben Corcoran
Love of Women
1924
as Mr. Redfield
Virtuous Liars
1924
as Josiah Wright
Week End Husbands
1924
as John Keane
Man and Wife
1923
as Caleb Perkins
Fog Bound
1923
as Deputy Brown
The Glimpses of the Moon
1923
as Fred Gillow
None So Blind
1923
as Russell Mortimer
Deadline at Eleven
1920
as Paul Klocke
The Tower of Jewels
1919
as Fraser Grimstead
The Cambric Mask
1919
as John Sark
The Captain's Captain
1919
as Lawford Tapp
The Crimson Stain Mystery
1916
as Harold Stanley
The Crown Prince's Double
1916
as Prince Oscar / Barry Lawrence
The Evil Men Do
1915
as David Horton
The Heart of Jim Brice
1915
as Jim Brice
Rags and the Girl
1915
as Tom Raine
Some Steamer Scooping
1914
as Baron Lafitte
Etta of the Footlights
1914
as Lord Wentworth
Too Much Burglar
1914
as Tom Perry
Iron and Steel
1914
as John Smardon
The Peacemaker
1914
as Himself - Cameo Appearance
The Moonstone of Fez
1914
as Schuyler Van Norden
The Mysterious Lodger
1914
as Ralph Brent - the Mysterious Lodger
A Princess of Bagdad
1913
as Seyn - the Cobbler
Fellow Voyagers
1913
as Tom Blake
The Hindoo Charm
1913
as Sir Edward Tilbury
The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
1913
as Lambert Chase
Getting Up a Practice
1913
as Dr. Lyons
The Sale of a Heart
1913
as Charles Lindgard
Delayed Proposals
1913
as Jack Hardy
The Lonely Princess
1913
as Endicott, an American Millionaire
What a Change of Clothes Did
1913
as John Mason
Jack's Chrysanthemum
1913
Conscience
1912
as Harold Winter
For the Honor of the Family
1912
as Guy Ryder aka Guy Denton
The Money Kings
1912
as Roy Brain
Wanted... a Grandmother
1912
as Mr. Hale
Bobby's Father
1912
as Dick Ramsay - Bobby's Father
Her Grandchild
1912
as Donald Grant - the Son
A Vitagraph Romance
1912
as Maurice Costello
The First Violin
1912
On the Pupil of His Eye
1912
as Lambert Chase, Detective
The Two Battles
1912
as Gordon Frazier
The Black Sheep
1912
as Harold Moreland - the Black Sheep's Brother
The Picture Idol
1912
as Howard Hanson
Dr. LaFleur's Theory
1912
as Dr. LaFleur
The Spider's Web
1912
as Trevor Lawlor - A Young Attorney
Half a Hero
1912
as Joe Godfrey
The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
1912
Aunty's Romance
1912
as Stephen Fiske Jr.
The Loyalty of Sylvia
1912
as Dr. Dudley Lawrence
As You Like It
1912
as Orlando
It All Came Out in the Wash
1912
as Barry Wall
Lulu's Doctor
1912
as Doctor John Lewis
The Meeting of the Ways
1912
as Tom - an Honest Attorney
Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
1912
as 'Enry Awkins
When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet
1912
as Henry Ford
The Adventure of the Italian Model
1912
as Lambert Chase - the Detective
The Old Silver Watch
1912
as Frank as an Adult
Siren of the Sea
1911
as Fisherman
The Inherited Taint
1911
as Herbert Warning
Barriers Burned Away
1911
as John Martin - First Brother
The Sleep Walker
1911
as Dr. Allan Langham
For Her Brother's Sake
1911
as Albert Black - The Brother
A Quaker Mother
1911
as John Harmon - A Quaker Husband
She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
1911
as Herbert - Rose's Fiance
For Love and Glory
1911
as Lt. Osmond
The Geranium
1911
as Daniel Briton
His Sister's Children
1911
as Harry Burton - the Children's Uncle
Some Good in All
1911
as Bill - a Providential Thief
A Tale of Two Cities
1911
as Sydney Carton
The Sacrifice
1911
as Nick Austin
Water Lilies
1911
as Maurice
Little Nemo
1911
as Himself
The New Stenographer
1911
as The boss
The Show Girl
1911
as Dr. Renfrew
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
1911
as Jesus Christ
Auld Lang Syne
1911
as Tammas
Proving His Love; or, The Ruse of a Beautiful Woman
1911
as Lloyd Stanwood
His Mother
1911
as Donald Gray
Dead Man’s Honor
1911
as Hugh
The Changing of Silas Warner
1911
as Silas Warner's Son
Love of Chrysanthemum
1910
How She Won Him
1910
as Arthur Lewis
Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
1910
Rose Leaves
1910
Over the Garden Wall
1910
Elektra
1910
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1909
as Lysander
The Way of the Cross, The Story of Ancient Rome
1909
The Bride of Lammermoor
1909
as Edgar Ravenswood
Saul and David
1909
as David
Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy
1908
Leah, the Forsaken
1908
as Rudolf
The Merchant of Venice
1908
Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
1908
Antony and Cleopatra
1908
as Marc Antony
Salome; or, The Dance of the Seven Veils
1908
as King Herod
The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
1908