Horace B. Carpenter
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Horace Bernard Carpenter
- Born:
- 1875-01-31, Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, USA
- Died:
- 1945-05-21, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
A midwinter baby, Horace B. Carpenter arrived in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota on 31 January 1875 and grew up to trade prairie quiet for the flicker of silver-screen dreams. Behind the camera and in front of it, he shaped early Hollywood—directing and acting in the wolf-shadowed horror *Maniac* (1934), saddling up for the sagebrush saga *The Arizona Kid* (1929), and braving jungle peril in *Fangs of Fate* (1925). Along the way he shared his life with two wives, Beatrice Allen and later Ella N. Hilger. His final scene rolled on 21 May 1945 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, closing a seventy-year arc that stretched from a Mississippi River town to the heart of American moviemaking.
