Rockliffe Fellowes
actor
- Birth name:
- Rockliffe St. Patrick Fellowes
- Born:
- 1884-03-17, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Died:
- 1950-01-28, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
Born in the snow-light of Ottawa on 17 March 1884, Rockliffe Fellowes traded the chill of the Rideau for the klieg-light shimmer of silent-era Hollywood. Between 1919 and 1931 he stalked, smoldered and swaggered across more than sixty pictures, earning lasting notice as the hard-boiled riverboat captain in The Understanding Heart (1927) and the steel-eyed prosecutor in The Crystal Cup (1927). Two years before the talkies swallowed the silents, he stepped into sound with Monkey Business (1931), letting the Marx Brothers run circles around his exasperated straight man. Off-screen, Fellowes claimed the hand of stage great Lucile Watson; their marriage outlasted both his leading-man years and the flicker of his fame. He died quietly in Los Angeles on 28 January 1950, leaving behind a trail of nitrate memories and a name that once blazed across marquees.
