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William Hauber
actor, stunts
- Birth name:
- William Carl Hauber
- Born:
- 1891-05-20, Brownsville, Minnesota, USA
- Died:
- 1929-07-17, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, stunts
Biography
A Minnesota winter greeted William Hauber on 20 May 1891—Brownsville’s coldest export until Hollywood came calling. Silent-era audiences knew him best as the comic spark in Passing the Buck (1919), Well, I’ll Be (1919) and The Fly Cop (1920), where pratfalls and poker-faced timing replaced dialogue. Off-screen, he shared his life with Myrtle E. Crosthwaite; on-screen, he shared belly-laughs with millions. Thirty-eight summers later, on 17 July 1929, the lights went down for good in Los Angeles, but the flicker of his humor still skips across the frames.
