Robert McKim
actor
- Born:
- 1886-08-26, San Francisco, California, USA
- Died:
- 1927-06-04, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Fourteen-year-old Bob McKim first earned applause not on any stage, but between café tables in Chicago, where he sang orders and tap-danced trays. The gig launched him straight into San Francisco’s Alcazar stock company, then into a decades-long vaudeville partnership with Johnny Cantwell. When reels replaced footlights, McKin jumped to Triangle and Ince, co-founding the National Vaudeville Artists along the way. Silent-film fans still hiss his suave villain opposite Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro (1920). In mid-performance at Salt Lake City’s theater, a cerebral hemorrhage felled him; he was carried home to Hollywood, where he died, survived by actress-wife Dorcas Matthews and their two young children.
