Dick Sutherland was an American film actor of the silent era

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

. He appeared in 76 films between 1921 and 1932. His crude threatening looking features were a result of acromegaly

Acromegaly

Acromegaly is a syndrome that results when the anterior pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone after epiphyseal plate closure at puberty...

. This visage led him to be cast as a menace from one silent film to another be it comedy, drama, adventure, romance etc.

He was born in Benton, Kentucky

Benton, Kentucky

Benton is a city in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 4,197 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marshall County....

, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

.

Selected filmography

• A Sailor-Made Man
  A Sailor-Made Man
  A Sailor-Made Man is a 1921 comedy film directed by Fred Newmeyer and starring Harold Lloyd.-Plot:The film begins with "The Boy" , an idle, wealthy playboy, relaxing at a lavish country club, where he suddenly decides to ask "The Girl" to marry him...
  
  (1921)
• The Phantom Fortune
  The Phantom Fortune
  The Phantom Fortune is a 1923 film serial directed by Robert F. Hill.-Cast:* William Desmond - Larry Barclay* Esther Ralston - Mary Rogers* Lewis Sargent - Speck O'Dawn* Harry De Vere - Graham Alexander* George Webb - Alexander Owens...
  
  (1923)
• The Red Lily
  The Red Lily
  The Red Lily is a 1924 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett and Wallace Beery.-Plot:Jean Leonnec and Marise La Noue are pennyless lovers who eloped to Paris, she to become a prostitute known as 'the red lily', he to learn the ways of the underworld from...
  
  (1924)
• The Fighting Dude
  The Fighting Dude
  The Fighting Dude is a 1925 comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle.-Cast:* Lupino Lane* Virginia Vance* Wallace Lupino* Glen Cavender* George Davis* Dick Sutherland...
  
  (1925)
• Don Juan
  Don Juan (1926 film)
  Don Juan is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue...
  
  (1926)
• When a Man Loves (1927)
• The Beloved Rogue
  The Beloved Rogue
  The Beloved Rogue is a 1927 American silent film, loosely based on the life of the 15th century French poet, François Villon. The film was directed by Alan Crosland for United Artists....
  
  (1927)
• The Battle of the Century
  The Battle of the Century
  The Battle of the Century is a 1927 Hal Roach two-reeler starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who, although just teamed, had yet to take on their recognisable Stan and Ollie characters on a more or less permanent basis. A young Lou Costello can be seen in an early scene as a member of the...
  
  (1927)
• The Hoose-Gow
  The Hoose-Gow
  The Hoose-Gow is a 1929 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James Parrott and produced by Hal Roach.- Synopsis :Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching...
  
  (1929)
• Chandu the Magician
  Chandu the Magician (film)
  Chandu the Magician is a 1932 American mystery film starring Edmund Lowe as a Magician/Yogi secret agent, Frank Chandler and Bela Lugosi as the megalomaniac villain Roxor, that he must stop. Based on the radio play of the same name, written by Harry A. Earnshaw, Vera M. Oldham and R.R. Morgan...
  
  (1932)

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