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George D. Melville
actor
- Birth name:
- George Donald Melville
- Born:
- 1857, Valparaiso, Indiana, USA
- Died:
- 1917-05-20, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
A midwinter baby in 1857, George D. Melville first drew breath in Valparaiso, Indiana, long before the town’s name became a railroad punch line. By the 1910s he had traded the calm of the prairie for the flicker of nickelodeon lamps, carving out a corner in early cinema with three one-reel sensations: the missing-man mystery *The Man Who Disappeared* (1914), the social-climbing swirl of *Vanity Fair* (1915), and the moral crucible *The Gates of Eden* (1916). Off-screen, his heart took two turns down the aisle—first with Annie Maud Morris, later with Mamie Conway—before the curtain fell for good on 20 May 1917 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
