Antrim Short
actor
- Birth name:
- Mark Antrim Short
- Born:
- 1900-07-11, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Died:
- 1972-11-24, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
July 11, 1900: Cincinnati’s riverbanks welcomed Antrim Short, a boy who would swap Ohio’s gray winters for California’s klieg-light glare. By sixteen he had leapt from classroom stages to silver-screen riverbanks, first stirring hearts as the reckless suitor in *The Flirt* (1916). A year later he slipped into Tom Sawyer’s straw hat, guiding audiences through Mark Twain’s mischief in the 1917 hit, then reunited with the raft and rascals for *Huck and Tom* (1918). Between takes he found steadier company in actress Frances Morris; their off-camera romance rolled straight into marriage. Fifty-five summers after his Midwestern sunrise, Short’s final scene unfolded in Los Angeles on November 24, 1972, closing a life bookended by two great rivers—the Ohio of his birth and the celluloid current he navigated as one of silent cinema’s spirited youths.
