George Periolat was an American actor.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, George Periolat began his career as a Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 actor. Making his film debut with the Essanay Studios

Essanay Studios

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.-Founding:...

 in Chicago, he moved to Hollywood in 1911 and starred in over 170 films throughout his career. He was a very versatile actor, often playing multiple roles in a single production, as when he played two leading characters, the count and the crook, in the 1916 production of The Counterfeit Earl. The story of Norma Desmond, though fictitious, is not far removed from the plight of many silent film

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...

 stars, and the advent of the sound film

Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...

 brought about a swift end to Periolat's career. He made his last appearance in 1932's What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, and Jane Murfin is based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns.-Plot:...

. On February 20, 1940, he committed suicide

Suicide

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 by ingesting arsenic

Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As, atomic number 33 and relative atomic mass 74.92. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in conjunction with sulfur and metals, and also as a pure elemental crystal. It was first documented by Albertus Magnus in 1250.Arsenic is a metalloid...

 in his Hollywood mansion.

Outside his acting career, George Periolat was an amateur photographer, and a grandson of Napoleon Periolat

Napoleon Periolat

Napoleon Periolat was a Chicago businessman in the mid-19th century, founder of the 1850 Periolat brewery in Wheeling, Illinois, and grandfather of George Periolat.- References :*...

.

1930s

• What Price Hollywood? (1932) (uncredited) .... Undetermined Role
• Cracked Nuts (1931) (uncredited) .... Royal Advisor

1920s

• One Splendid Hour (1929) .... Senator Walsh
• The Fatal Warning
  The Fatal Warning
  The Fatal Warning is a 1929 mystery film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be a lost film, with no prints known to exist.-Cast:* Helene Costello - Dorothy Rogers* Ralph Graves - Russell Thorne* George Periolat - William Rogers...
  
   (1929) .... William Rogers
• When Dreams Come True (1929) .... Robert Swayne
• Night Watch (1928) .... Fargasson
• Black Butterflies (1928) .... Hatch
• The Secret Hour (1928) .... Doctor
• Fangs of Destiny (1927) .... Colonel Shelby
• Through Thick and Thin (1927) .... James Morris
• Speedy Smith (1927) .... Charles C. Smith
• The Prairie King (1927) .... Ramon Fernandez
• The Mile-a-Minute Man (1926) .... C.O. 'Old Ironsides' Rockett
• Butterflies in the Rain (1926)
• Atta Boy (1926)
• The Nutcracker (1926) .... Señor Gómez
• The Phantom Express (1925) .... John Lane
• Fighting Youth (1925) .... Judge Manley
• Any Woman (1925) .... Robert Cartwright
• The Girl on the Stairs (1925) .... Dr. Bourget
• 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) .... Papa Bouchard
• Lovers' Lane (1924) .... Dr. Stone
• The Yankee Consul
  The Yankee Consul (film)
  The Yankee Consul is a 1924 American black-and-white silent comedy film directed by James W. Horne and written by Raymond Cannon. With a screen adaptation by Lewis Milestone and Raymond Griffith, the film is based upon the 1904 Broadway play The Yankee Consul; a Musical Comedy by Alfred G...
  
   (1924) .... Don Rafael Desschado
• Slave of Desire (1923) .... The Duke
• Rosita
  Rosita (film)
  Rosita is a 1923 silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The film is based upon a 1872 opera Don César de Bazan.-Synopsis:The film takes place in Seville, in a period where the city has sunk into the depths of depravity and sin...
  
   (1923) .... Rosita's father
• Barefoot Boy (1923) .... Si Parker
• The Tiger's Claw (1923) .... Henry Frazer Halehurst
• The Young Rajah (1922) .... General Gadi
• Blood and Sand (1922) .... Marquis of Guevera
• Dust Flower (1922) .... Ott
• Gay and Devilish (1922) .... Nethercote
• Shattered Idols (1922) .... The High Priest
• A Parisian Scandal (1921) .... Count Louis Oudoff
• Her Face Value (1921) .... James R. Greenwood
• Wealth (1921) .... Irving Seaton
• They Shall Pay (1921) .... Amos Colby
• Who Am I? (1921) .... John Collins
• The Kiss (1921) .... Don Luis Baldarama
• Two Weeks with Pay (1921) .... Ginsberg
• The Mark of Zorro
  The Mark of Zorro (1920 film)
  The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro...
  
   (1920) .... Gov. Alvarado
• Life's Twist (1920) .... Mr. Boyd Chester
• Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1920) .... Fred Leslie
• Nurse Marjorie (1920) .... Andrew Danbury
• The Dangerous Talent (1920) .... Peyton Dodge
• Judy of Rogue's Harbor
  Judy of Rogue's Harbor
  Judy of Rogue's Harbor is a 1920 silent film drama directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Miles Minter. The film is taken from the novel Judy of Rogue's Harbor by Grace Miller White. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Realart and Paramount Pictures...
  
   (1920) .... Peter Kingsland

1910s

• Eve in Exile (1919) .... Jim Ricardo
• Beckoning Roads (1919) .... John Graysoon
• The Hellion (1919) .... Signor Enrico
• The Tiger Lily (1919) .... Luigi
• A Sporting Chance (1919/I) .... Edward Craig
• Trixie from Broadway (1919) .... Broadway Benham
• The Intrusion of Isabel (1919) .... Henry Whitney
• Put Up Your Hands! (1919) .... Peter Barton
• The Amazing Impostor (1919) .... Henry Hope
• Wives and Other Wives (1918) .... Judge Corcoran
• The Eyes of Julia Deep
  The Eyes of Julia Deep
  The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story by the same name, written by Kate L. McLaurin. It is one of the few films starring Minter which are known to have survived.-Plot:Julia Deep is a young woman...
  
   (1918) .... Timothy Black
• The Ghost of Rosy Taylor (1918) .... Charles Eldridge/Joseph Sayles
• Social Briars (1918) .... Peter Andrews
• Beauty and the Rogue (1918) .... Thomas Lee
• Rosemary Climbs the Heights (1918) .... Godfrey Van Voort
• The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917) .... Captain Ward
• A Game of Wits (1917) .... Cyrus Browning
• Southern Pride (1917) .... James Morgan
• Sands of Sacrifice (1917) .... Enoch Foyle
• Melissa of the Hills (1917) .... Cyrus Kimball
• Periwinkle (1917) .... Ephraiam Rawlins
• Her Country's Call (1917) .... Jim Slocum
• Annie-for-Spite (1917) .... Andrew Walters
• Environment (1917) .... David Holcombe
• The Old Sheriff (1917)
• Nature's Calling (1917)
• Double Revenge (1917)
• The Gilded Youth (1917) .... Undetermined Role
• The Valley of Decision (1916) .... Dr. Brainard
• And the Law Says (1916) .... Dr. Cartmell
• Philip Holden - Waster (1916) .... Miles Holden
• The Sable Blessing (1916) .... Crow
• The Atonement (1916/I)
• Enchantment (1916)
• The Little Troubadour (1916)
• Pastures Green (1916)
• The Dancer (1916)
• The Quicksands of Deceit (1916)
• Killed by Whom? (1916)
• Tangled Skeins (1916)
• The Gentle Conspiracy (1916)
• Jealousy's First Wife (1916)
• Four Months (1916)
• The Touch on the Key (1916)
• The Counterfeit Earl (1916)
• Realization (1916)
• The Wayfarers (1916)
• Ways of the World (1916)
• The Code of Honor (1916)
• The Silken Spider (1916)
• Life's Harmony (1916)
• The Smugglers of Santa Cruz
  The Smugglers of Santa Cruz
  The Smugglers of Santa Cruz is a 1916 American silent short drama film directed by Donald MacDonald starring Charlotte Burton, Eugenie Forde, George Periolat, William Russell, and Roy Stewart....
  
   (1916)
• Viviana
  Viviana
  Viviana is a 1916 short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason....
  
   (1916)
• Curly (1915)
• The Road to Paradise (1915) .... Prince Vladislav
• When a Queen Loved O'Rourke (1915)
• The Palace of Dust (1915)
• The Diamond from the Sky (1915) .... Luke Lovell
• The Stool Pigeon (1915) .... Oswald Trumble
• The Guardian of the Flock (1915)
• The Storm (1915)
• Smouldering Fires (1915)
• A Bogus Bandit (1915)
• The King and the Man (1914)
• The Inn of the Winged Gods (1914)
• The Empire of Illusion (1914)
• His Heart His Hand and His Sword (1914)
• His Father's Son (1914/I)
• Disillusioned (1914)
• The Proof of a Man (1914)
• A Kentucky Gentleman (1914)
• Little Meg and I (1914)
• The Man from Nowhere (1914)
• Weight and Measures (1914)
• There Is a Destiny (1914)
• Man and His Brother (1914)
• Out of the Valley (1914)
• Value Received (1914)
• At Mexico's Mercy (1914)
• A Twentieth Century Pirate (1914)
• The Sandhill Lovers (1914) .... Hardy, the Rustler
• The Sheep Herder (1914)
• The Call Back (1914)
• Toilers of the Sea (1914)
• As Fate Willed (1914)
• Samson
  Samson (1914 film)
  Samson is a 1914 short drama film. Harold Lloyd has an uncredited role.-Cast:* J. Warren Kerrigan - Samson* George Periolat - Manoah, Samson's father* Lule Warrenton - Wife of Manoah* Kathleen Kerrigan - Delilah* Edith Bostwick - Zorah, Samson's wife...
  
   (1914) .... Manoah, Samson's father
• The Lion (1914)
• The Bolted Door (1914)
• Sealed Orders (1914)
• The Acid Test (1914/I)
• Hearts and Flowers (1914/III)
• The Man Between (1914)
• The Man Who Lied (1914)
• The Magic Skin (1914)
• The Field Foreman (1913)
• Rory o' the Bogs
  Rory o' the Bogs
  Rory o' the Bogs is a 1913 short. Harold Lloyd has an uncredited role.-Cast:* J. Warren Kerrigan - Rory o' the Bogs* William Walters* Edith Bostwick* Jessalyn Van Trump* George Periolat* William Abbott* Harold Lloyd - Posse Member...
  
   (1913)
• Incognito (1913)
• The Dread Inheritance (1913) .... The Father
• The Barrier of Bars (1913)
• The Tale of the Ticker (1913)
• The Passerby (1913)
• The Girl and the Greaser (1913)
• In the Days of Trajan (1913)
• The Restless Spirit
  The Restless Spirit
  The Restless Spirit is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. in an uncredited role. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* J. Warren Kerrigan - Husband* Pauline Bush - Wife* Jessalyn Van Trump - Woman...
  
   (1913)
• The Step Brothers (1913)
• A Pitfall of the Installment Plan (1913)
• The Badge of Honor (1913)
• Travellers of the Road (1913)
• Calamity Anne, Heroine (1913)
• For the Crown (1913)
• For the Flag (1913)
• The Scapegoat (1913)
• Truth in the Wilderness (1913)
• Quicksands (1913)
• A Husband's Mistake (1913)
• Her Big Story (1913)
• The Wishing Seat (1913)
• Calamity Anne's Parcel Post (1913)
• Oil on Troubled Waters (1913)
• The Road to Ruin (1913/II)
• Calamity Anne's Beauty (1913)
• Cupid Never Ages (1913)
• Nell of the Pampas (1912)
• Her Own Country (1912)
• Where There's a Heart (1912) .... The Prospector
• The Evil Inheritance (1912) .... The Father
• The Thread of Life (1912)
• The Maid and the Man (1912)
• From the Four Hundred to the Herd (1912)
• The Angel of Paradise Ranch (1911)
• The Water War (1911)

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