Roy Applegate
actor, casting_director, director
- Born:
- 1878-12-07, Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
- Died:
- 1950-02-09, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, USA
- Professions:
- actor, casting_director, director
Biography
A winter baby delivered on December 7, 1878, in the riverside hamlet of Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, Roy Applegate grew up to trade small-town quiet for the flicker of silent-era footlights. In front of the camera he became the tortured Uncle Tom in the 1914 screen version of Stowe’s classic, traded quips and kisses in 1915’s All for a Girl, and, nearly a decade later, stepped into Renaissance pageantry for Yolanda (1924). Between takes he called the shots from the director’s chair, shaping the same stories he helped embody. Off-set he shared his life with Katherine K. Burch, his partner in the unpredictable theater of marriage. The curtain finally rang down on February 9, 1950, in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, the same state that had watched his first act begin seventy-one years earlier.
