George Fawcett

George Fawcett
File:George Fawcett.jpg George Fawcett in 1909 in the play The Great John Ganton
Born	(1860-08-25)August 25, 1860 Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Died	Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1915-1933
Spouse(s)	Percy Haswell (1895–1939 his death) (1 daughter)

George Fawcett (August 25, 1860 – June 6, 1939) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. On stage he appeared in such plays as Ghosts (1905) with Mary Shaw, The Squaw Man (1905) with William Faversham, The Great John Ganton (1909) with an up-and-coming actress Laurette Taylor in the cast and Getting A Polish (1910) with the historic film actress May Irwin. He appeared in 151 films between 1915 and 1933.

He was born in Alexandria, Virginia and died in Nantucket, Massachusetts. His wife was the actress Percy Haswell. Fawcett and Haswell had a daughter.

Partial filmography

• The Habit of Happiness (1916)
• The Crisis (1916)
• The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
• The Great Love (1918)
• The Talk of the Town (1918)
• Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918)
• The Hope Chest (1918)
• A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
• I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
• True Heart Susie (1919)
• The Greatest Question (1919)
• Babs (1920)
• Such a Little Queen (1921) (*director only)
• Forever (1921)
• The Way of a Maid (1921)
• Polly of the Follies (1922)
• Ebb Tide (1922)
• Beyond the Rainbow (1922)
• John Smith (1922)
• Manslaughter (1922)
• The Woman With Four Faces (1923)
• His Children's Children (1923)
• Pied Piper Malone (1924)
• Triumph (1924)
• The Bedroom Window (1924)
• The Merry Widow (1925)
• Thank You (1925)
• The Circle (1925)
• There You Are! (1926)
  File:The Corner 1916.jpg

  In a still from The Corner (1916), millionaire David Waltham (played by George Fawcett, holding a cigar and scowling) stands in a group of businessmen.
• Son of the Sheik (1926)
• Flesh and the Devil (1926)
• See You in Jail (1927)
• Snowbound (1927)
• Tillie the Toiler (1927)
• Spring Fever (1927)
• Love (1927)
• The Enemy (1927)
• The Wedding March (1928)
• Tempest (1928)
• Tide of Empire (1929)
• The Four Feathers (1929)
• Wonder of Women (1929)
• The Bad One (1930)
• Ladies of Leisure (1930)
• Hello Sister (1930)
• A Woman of Experience (1931)
• Hello, Sister! (1933)

External links

• George Fawcett at the Internet Movie Database
• George Fawcett at the Internet Broadway Database
• George Fawcett and Percy Haswell Fawcett papers, 1857-1903, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts