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Arthur M. Cullin
actor
- Birth name:
- Arthur Mackesay Cullin
- Born:
- 1862, Kensington, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1926, Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
A Kensington boy born sometime in the 1870s, Arthur M. Cullin swapped the city’s fog for footlights in the mid-1890s, slipping almost unnoticed into the new century of moving pictures. From 1914 onward he became the well-tailored conscience of countless crime and drama reels—first for the London (Jury) Film Company, later for Stoll and British Gaumont—his sharp moustache and sharper timing flashing across screens until the mid-1920s. Twice he stepped into Baker Street as cinema’s original Dr. Watson: opposite H. A. Sainsbury’s Holmes in 1916’s *The Valley of Fear*, then again beside Eille Norwood’s pipe and deerstalker in 1923’s *The Sign of Four*.
