Walter Long (actor)

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Walter Long (5 March 1879–4 July 1952) was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He appeared in many D.W. Griffith films, notably The Birth of a Nation (1915), where he appeared as Gus, a Negro, in blackface make-up, and Intolerance (1916). But he is now best remembered for his roles in several Laurel and Hardy films in the 1930s as a comic villain. While his on-screen persona was crude and thuggish, in his private life he was well-dressed, intelligent, and personable, the complete antithesis of the characters he portrayed.