Augustus Balfour

Biography

Philadelphia greeted Augustus Balfour on 12 July 1866, and by 1914 he had traded Quaker brick for klieg lights, lending his hawk-sharp profile to The Pride of Jennico and The Port of Missing Men—two quicksilver releases that same bustling year. A twelve-month heartbeat later he slipped into the skin of The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde, sealing a brief but indelible screen legacy. The curtain fell for good on 6 January 1940 in Manhattan, the city that finally claimed the journeyman actor who once strode from Pennsylvania modesty to flickering immortality.