Walter Percival

Walter Percival (May 2, 1887 – January 28, 1934)^[1] was an American actor, producer, and writer on the stage and screen. He performed in numerous theater productions^[2][3] before making his film debut in 1918.

In 1909, Percival was part of a company headed by Grace Van Studdiford.^[4] His Broadway debut was in A Venetian Romance (1904), and his last Broadway performance was in Find Daddy (1926).^[1]

Stage roles

• Eugene Dubois in The Gay Musician (1908)^[5]
• Forrest Krider in Will o' th' Wisp (1911), a musical for which he had written the book and lyrics to music by Alfred G. Robyn.^[6]
• Prince Victor de Champagnax in The Man from Cook's (1912)^[7]

Filmography

• Our Mrs. McChesney (1918)^[8]
• The Moral Sinner (1924)
• The Flying Horseman (1926)
• The Big City (1928)
• Lights of New York (1928)
• Lightnin' (1930)
• The Avenger (1931)^[9]
• The Homicide Squad (1931)
• Guilty or Not Guilty (1932)
• Cabin in the Cotton (1932)^[10]
• Tillie and Gus (1933)^[11]

Sources

• Neibaur, James L. (March 23, 2017). The W.C. Fields Films. McFarland. ISBN 9781476665306. – via Google Books.
• Reid, John Howard (December 3, 2005). Movie Westerns: Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781411666108. – via Google Books.
• Percival, Walter (January 1, 1997). Western Movies: A TV and Video Guide to 4200 Genre Films. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786404216. – via Google Books.
• Nash, Jay Robert; Connelly, Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (January 3, 1988). Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936. Cinebooks. ISBN 9780933997004. – via Google Books.
• Dietz, Dan (2021). "The Man from Cook's". The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 149. ISBN 9781538150283.

References

1. ^ "Walter Percival". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived July 10, 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
2. ^ "Walter Percival – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com
3. ^ "Walter Percival". Playbill
4. ^ "Music at the Academy". The Baltimore Sun. March 16, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved July 10, 2021. – via Newspapers.com
5. ^
6. ^ Saunders, Ralph D. (May 2, 1911). ""Will O' Th' Wisp" Has Music Score Rich In melody". St. Louis Post Dispatch. p. 8. – via Newspapers.com
7. ^ Dietz 2021, p. 149.
8. ^ Nash, Connelly & Ross 1988.
9. ^ Percival 1997.
10. ^ Reid 2005, p. 41.
11. ^ Neibaur 2017, p. 86.

External links

• Walter Percival at IMDb
• The Homicide Squad (1931)