Arthur Edmund Carewe

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Arthur Edmund Carewe (December 30, 1884 – April 22, 1937), born Jan Fox in Trebizond, Ottoman Empire (now Trabzon Turkey), was an Armenian actor in the silent film era.

Carewe came to the United States at the age of ten. He was educated at the Cushing Academy in Massachusetts, after which he studied painting and sculpture. He decided upon a stage career and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He had nine years experience on the Broadway stage in mostly literary adaptations, before moving to Hollywood in 1919, where he first co-starred with Constance Talmadge in Romance and Arabella.

During his time in the motion picture industry, Carewe became a well respected character actor and would perform in several classic literary screen adaptations and especially as shady, neurotic, wild-eyed characters, which he seemed to revel in playing. He was for a time considered for, and later turned down, the role of Count Dracula in 1931, which would eventually go to Bela Lugosi. Seen in many classic offerings such as The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927), The Cat and the Canary (1927), Trilby (1923), Doctor X (1932), and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), Carewe completed nearly fifty films, mostly during the silent film era.

Shortly after completing Charlie Chan's Secret (1936), he suffered a stroke. Tormented by the stroke that hampered his acting career, he was found dead in his car in a Santa Monica auto garage, an apparent suicide by a gunshot to the head.

Married to Irene Pavlowska in 1920, very little is generally known about this silent film actor.