Joseph Singleton
actor
- Birth name:
- Joseph Edward Victor Fairfield Daveran Singleton
- Born:
- 1879-03-01, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Died:
- 1946-10-24, Alameda, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Melbourne, 1 March 1879: Joseph Singleton drew his first breath in the bustle of Victorian-era Australia and, before the century closed, set sail for a life that would flicker across silent screens. He stepped before the camera when Hollywood was still learning to walk, lending his weathered visage to Jesse L. Lasky’s frontier milestone *The Squaw Man* (1914), then swapping six-guns for cutlasses in the 1920 adaptation of *Treasure Island* and facing down outlaws again that same year in *The Toll Gate*. Off-screen, he shared his name—and his adventures—with actress Iva Shepard. Nearly three decades after the gold-rush cameras stopped turning, Singleton’s final scene came quietly on 24 October 1946 in Alameda, California, leaving behind the grainy glow of a pioneer who helped tame the wild, flickering West.
