Dell Henderson
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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.
As Actor/Actress
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Extra (uncredited)
La pícara puritana
Vance's Butler (uncredited)
Love Affair
Cafe Manager (uncredited)
Make Way for Tomorrow
Ed Weldon - Auto Salesman (uncredited)
Undercurrent
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Major and the Minor
Doorman (uncredited)
The Crowd
Dick
Show People
Colonel Pepper
Stranger on the Third Floor
Detective (uncredited)
Ruggles of Red Gap
Sam
Thunder in the Night
Ambassador - Party Guest
The Champ
The Doctor (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous
Doorman (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin Returns
Plainclothes Detective (uncredited)
Wells Fargo
Customer
Frontier Marshal
Dave Hall
Annie Get Your Gun
Hotel Guest in Hammock (uncredited)
Gente joven
Eddie's Father
Abbott y Costello en Hollywood
Benson (uncredited)
Lone Cowboy
Mr. Burton (uncredited)
The Texas Rangers
Citizen (uncredited)
Hubo una luna de miel
American Attaché (uncredited)
Bottoms Up
Lane Worthing
Du Barry Was a Lady
Flunky (uncredited)
Diamond Jim
Gambler
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Southerner (uncredited)
The Massacre
In Wagon Train
The Daring Young Man
Mayor
The Missing Juror
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Behind the Camera
The Speed Demon
Historia
Gambling Wives
Director
Bobby the Coward
Escritor
A Dash Through the Clouds
Escritor
Dynamite Allen
Director
Love in a Hurry
Director
The Golden Wall
Director
Wife and Auto Trouble
Director
Three Green Eyes
Director
Battling Brewster
Director
The Modern Prodigal
Escritor
The Rambling Ranger
Director
The Beautiful Adventure
Director
The Girl from Porcupine
Director
A Woman in the Ultimate
Director
Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Director
The Bad Lands
Director
Her Second Husband
Director
A Girl Like That
Director
Pursued
Director
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Director
Dead or Alive
Director
Who Loved Him Best?
Director
Sure-Fire Flint
Director
By Hook or Crook
Director
Outcast
Director, Productor
The Plumber
Director
Rolling Stones
Director
The Dead Line
Director
The Broken Silence
Director