Henry Bergman
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Bergman in a scene from The Adventurer (1917)
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Born | February 23, 1868 |
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Occupation | Film actor |
Henry Bergman (February 23, 1868 – October 22, 1946) was an American actor of stage and film, known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin.
Biography
Born in San Francisco, California, he acted in live theatre, appearing in Henrietta in 1888 at the Hollis Street Theatre in Boston and in the touring production of The Senator in 1892 and 1893. He made his Broadway debut in 1899 appearing with Anna Held in Papa's Wife, the musical hit of the year. He made his first film appearance with The L-KO Kompany in 1914 at the age of forty-six. In 1916, Bergman started working with Charlie Chaplin, beginning with The Pawnshop. For the rest of his career, Bergman remained a character actor for Chaplin and worked as a studio assistant, including Assistant Director. He played in many Chaplin shorts and later features, including The Pawnshop, The Immigrant, A Dog's Life, The Gold Rush, The Circus, and City Lights. Bergman's last on-screen appearance was in Modern Times as a restaurant manager, and his final offscreen contribution was for The Great Dictator in 1940. Chaplin helped Bergman finance a restaurant in Hollywood, named "Henry's", which became a popular spot for celebrities as a precursor to the later Brown Derby restaurant.
Henry Bergman continued to be associated with the Chaplin Studios until his death from a heart attack in 1946. He is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Partial filmography
- The Kreutzer Sonata (1915)
- The Melting Pot (1915)
- The Pawnshop (1916)
- The Rink (1916)
- Easy Street (1917)
- The Cure (1917)
- The Immigrant (1917)
- The Adventurer (1917)
- A Dog's Life (1918)
- Shoulder Arms (1918)
- Sunnyside (1919)
- A Day's Pleasure (1919)
- The Professor (1919)
- The Kid (1921)
- The Idle Class (1921)
- Pay Day (1922)
- The Pilgrim (1923)
- A Woman of Paris (1923)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- The Circus (1928)
- City Lights (1931)
- Modern Times (1936)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henry Bergman. |
- Henry Bergman at the Internet Movie Database
- Henry Bergman at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Henry Bergman at AllMovie
- Henry Bergman at Find a Grave
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- American male film actors
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- 1868 births
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- 19th-century American male actors
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