Herbert Rice
actor
- Born:
- 1888, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Died:
- 1938-07-17, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Providence, 1888: the year a restless kid named Herbert Rice first cracked open his eyes. By his mid-teens he’d slipped into the newfangled world of flickering pictures, lending that angular face and spring-loaded energy to stories that danced across nickelodeon screens. Audiences first noticed him in 1912’s Poor Finney, a one-reeler that whetted his appetite for celluloid. Three years later he tumbled down Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole as the harried White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (1915), ears twitching and pocket-watch swinging in the earliest feature-length take on Wonderland. He capped his brief but bright career in 1916, trading fairy-tale forests for carnival colors in The Rainbow Princess. Fate reeled him westward; on 17 July 1938, Chicago’s summer heat gave way to a chill curtain call, and the cameras stopped forever on Herbert Rice at fifty.
