Claude King was an English-born American character actor. With his distinctive wavy hair King appeared on both stage and screen. Began his stage career in his native UK before emigrating to the US. In 1919 he appeared on Broadway in support of Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...

 in the play Declassee. Gravitating to silent films he had a key role in Tod Browning

Tod Browning

Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras...

's lost

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

 silent masterpiece London After Midnight

London After Midnight

London After Midnight may refer to:* London After Midnight , a lost silent horror film* London After Midnight , a dark wave band from Los Angeles, California...

(1927) starring Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney, Sr.

Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...

. King was an original member of the board of men and women who founded the Screen Actor's Guild(SAG) in 1933.

Selected filmography

• Idols of Clay
  Idols of Clay (1920 film)
  Idols of Clay is a 1920 silent drama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Mae Murray and David Powell. A copy of the film survives in the Gosfilmofond Archive in Moscow.-Cast:* Mae Murray - Faith Merrill* David Powell - Dion Holme...
  
  (1920)
• Why Girls Leave Home (1921)
• Bella Donna (1923)
• Paradise (1926)
• Mr. Wu
  Mr. Wu
  Mr. Wu is a 1927 silent movie about a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.-Cast:*Lon Chaney - Mr. Wu/Grandfather Wu*Louise Dresser - Mrs. Gregory*Renee Adoree - Wu Nang Ping...
  
  (1927)
• Singed
  Singed
  Singed is a 1927 silent film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. The film was directed by John Griffith Wray and starred Blanche Sweet, the two had collaborated on 1923's Anna Christie...
  
  (1927)
• London After Midnight
  London After Midnight
  London After Midnight may refer to:* London After Midnight , a lost silent horror film* London After Midnight , a dark wave band from Los Angeles, California...
  
  (1927)
• Red Hair
  Red Hair (1928 film)
  Red Hair is a 1928 silent film starring Clara Bow and Lane Chandler, directed by Clarence G. Badger, based on a novel by Elinor Glyn, and released by Paramount Pictures....
  
  (1928)
• A Night of Mystery
  A Night of Mystery
  A Night of Mystery is a 1928 silent American drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Evelyn Brent.- Cast :* Adolphe Menjou as Captain Ferreol* Evelyn Brent as Gilberte Boismartel* Nora Lane as Thérèse D'Egremont...
  
  (1928)
• Desert Nights
  Desert Nights
  Desert Nights, also known as Thirst, is a 1929 drama film. It was the last silent film for star John Gilbert. Two thieves victimize a diamond mine and kidnap its manager, but he gains the upper hand when they flee into the hostile desert.The film is available for download or DVD purchase from...
  
  (1929)
• The Black Watch
  The Black Watch
  The Black Watch is a 1929 American early epic adventure drama film directed by John Ford and written by James Kevin McGuinness based on the novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy. The film starred Victor McLaglen...
  
  (1929)
• The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
  The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
  The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 film starring Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu. It was the first Fu Manchu film of the talkie era. It was very loosely based on the novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1929)
• Madame X
  Madame X (1929 film)
  Madame X is a 1929 drama film directed by Lionel Barrymore, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Ruth Chatterton was nominated for Best Actress for her performance as a fallen woman.-Plot:...
  
  (1929)
• Son of the Gods
  Son of the Gods
  Son of the Gods is a black-and-white romantic drama film with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Rex Beach...
  
  (1930)
• In Gay Madrid
  In Gay Madrid
  In Gay Madrid is an American musical comedy, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Ramón Novarro and Dorothy Jordan, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Production:...
  
  (1930)
• Follow Thru
  Follow Thru
  Follow Thru is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on the popular 1929 Broadway play of the same name by Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab. The play ran from January...
  
  (1930)
• Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes (1932 film)
  Sherlock Holmes is a film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation.Reginald Owen plays Dr....
  
  (1932)
• White Woman
  White Woman
  White Woman is a 1933 film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, and Charles Bickford. A young widow remarries and accompanies her husband to his remote jungle rubber plantation. The film was based on the play Hangman's Whip by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank...
  
  (1933)
• Long Lost Father
  Long Lost Father
  Long Lost Father is a 1934 drama film starring John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook, Alan Mowbray, and Doris Lloyd. It was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack.-Cast:*John Barrymore - Carl Bellairs*Helen Chandler - Lindsey Lane...
  
  (1934)
• Charlie Chan in London
  Charlie Chan in London
  Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde. The film stars Warner Oland as Charlie Chan, with Drue Leyton....
  
  (1934)
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious...
  
  (1935)
• If I Were King
  If I Were King
  If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical historical drama film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee...
  
  (1938)

External links

• Claude King, IMDb.com
• Claude King at IBDb.com
• Claude King with Lon Chaney in LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT(1927)
• portraits Claude King in his early stage years minus mustache(NY Public Library, Billy Rose Collection)