Clarence Handyside
actor
- Birth name:
- Clarence Auckland Handyside
- Born:
- 1854, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Died:
- 1931-12-20, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Montreal, 1854: a winter-birth produced Clarence Handyside, the journeyman performer who would one day prowl through the earliest reels of American cinema. Between 1914 and 1918 he slipped into three now-flickering titles—*The Jungle*, *Mice and Men*, and *The Turn of the Wheel*—each appearance sealing a moment of silent-era history. Off-screen, two marriages marked his private script: first to Blanche Sharp, later to Kate D. Baker. The curtain finally fell on 20 December 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, closing a life that had spanned stage lamps, camera cranks, and the birth of movies themselves.
