Josef Swickard

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Annette DeFoe and Josef Swickard
Annette DeFoe and Josef Swickard

Josef Swickard (26 June 1866 - 29 February 1940) was a German-born veteran stage and screen character actor, who had toured with stock companies in Europe, South Africa, and South America.

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[edit] Career

Swickard entered films with D.W. Griffith in 1912 and by 1914 was playing supporting roles for Mack Sennett. He appeared in Charles Chaplin's Laughing Gas and Caught in a Cabaret. He remained with Sennett until 1917, when he settled into his prolific career of playing mostly aristocratic characters. Modern audiences are perhaps most familiar with his role of Marcelo Desnoyers, the well intentioned but impractical French upper class father in Rex Ingram's 1921 film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His career in sound films was somewhat limited and he played in low-budget and action serial type films. He played the villainous Prime Minister Kruel in Wizard of Oz.

[edit] Family

Swickard was the brother of actor Charles Swickard and the husband of Broadway actress Margaret Campbell.

[edit] Filmography

  • The Pal from Texas
  • $1000 a Touchdown (1939)
  • You Can't Take It with You (1938)
  • Lash of the Penitentes (1937)
  • The Girl Said No (1937)
  • Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
  • The Sheik Steps Out (1937)
  • Sandflow (1937)
  • Boss Rider of Gun Creek (1936)
  • Under Your Spell (1936)
  • The Black Coin (1936)
  • Custer's Last Stand (1936)
  • Caryl of the Mountains (1936)
  • The Millionaire Kid (1936)
  • Custer's Last Stand (1936)
  • Chandu on the Magic Island (1935)
  • A Dog of Flanders (1935)
  • The Lost City (1935)
  • Phantom of the Desert (1930)
  • Song of the Caballero (1930)
  • Mamba (1930)
  • The Lone Defender (1930)
  • Street Corner (1929)
  • Dark Skies (1929)
  • Times Square (1929)
  • The Phantom of the North (1929)
  • Frozen River (1929)
  • The Veiled Woman (1929)
  • Three Pals (1929)
  • The Eternal Woman (1929)
  • The Devil's Chaplain (1929)
  • Bachelor's Club (1929)
  • Comrades (1928)
  • Eagle of the Night (1928)
  • The Toy Shop (1928)
  • Turn Back the Hours (1928)
  • Sharp Shooters (1928)
  • Compassion (1927)
  • Get Your Man (1927)
  • Old San Francisco (1927)
  • Time to Love (1927)
  • Señorita (1927)
  • False Morals (1927)
  • King of Kings, The (1927)
  • The Golden Stallion (1927)
  • One Increasing Purpose (1927)
  • Kentucky Handicap (1926)
  • Border Whirlwind (1926)
  • The Unknown Cavalier (1926)
  • Devil's Dice (1926)
  • High Flyer, The (1926)
  • Officer Jim (1926)
  • Don Juan (1926)
  • Senor Daredevil (1926)
  • Whispering Canyon (1926)
  • Desert Gold (1926)
  • The Night Patrol (1926)
  • Stop, Look and Listen (1926)
  • Battling Romeo (1925)
  • Mac's Beth (1925)
  • Northern Code (1925)
  • Taming of the Shrewd (1925)
  • The Keeper of the Bees (1925)
  • Off the Highway (1925)
  • The Mysterious Stranger (1925)
  • Wizard of Oz (1925)
  • Playing with Souls (1925)
  • Fifth Avenue Models (1925)
  • She Wolves (1925)
  • The Verdict (1925)
  • Sign of the Cactus, The (1925)
  • Easy Money (1925)
  • Dante's Inferno (1924)
  • Defying the Law (1924)
  • Untamed Youth (1924)
  • Men (1924)
  • Boy of Flanders, A (1924)
  • Pal o' Mine (1924)
  • Poisoned Paradise (1924)
  • North of Nevada (1924)
  • The Shadow of the East (1924)
  • Maytime (1923)
  • A Prince of a King(1923)
  • The Eternal Struggle (1923)
  • The Age of Desire (1923)
  • Forgive and Forget (1923)
  • Mothers-in-Law (1923)
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (1923)
  • Daughters of the Rich (1923)
  • Bavu (1923)
  • Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923)
  • The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922)
  • My American Wife (1922)
  • Pawned (1922)
  • The Young Rajah (1922)
  • Another Man's Shoes (1922)
  • The Storm (1922)
  • The Golden Gift (1922)
  • Across the Deadline (1922)
  • Cheated Hearts (1921)
  • No Woman Knows (1921)
  • Opened Shutters (1921)
  • Serenade (1921)
  • Who Am I? (1921)
  • Beach of Dreams (1921)
  • Sowing the Wind (1921)
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
  • Trumpet Island (1920)
  • Moon Madness (1920)
  • Blind Youth (1920)
  • The Third Generation (1920)
  • The Beggar Prince (1920)
  • The Last of His People (1919)
  • A Woman of Pleasure (1919)
  • A Girl In Bohemia (1919)
  • Snares of Paris (1919)
  • Pretty Smooth (1919)
  • The Lady of Red Butte (1919)
  • A Trick of Fate (1919)
  • When a Woman Sins (1918)
  • The Light of the Western Stars (1918)
  • The White Man's Law, The (1918)
  • The Treasure of the Sea (1918)
  • Keys of the Righteous (1918)
  • The Soul of Satan (1917)
  • His Mother's Boy (1917)
  • Because of a Woman (1917)
  • To Honor and Obey (1917)
  • The Book Agent (1917)
  • Aerial Joy Ride, An (1917)
  • American Methods (1917)
  • A Maiden's Trust (1917)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1917)
  • Haystacks and Steeples (1916)
  • His Wild Oats (1916)
  • Love Will Conquer (1916)
  • The Village Vampire (1916)
  • Ambrose's Cup of Woe (1916)
  • Better Late Than Never (1916)
  • Love, Speed and Thrills (1915)
  • Hogan's Romance Upset (1915)
  • Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (1915)
  • Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life (1915)
  • When Ambrose Dared Walrus (1915)
  • The Best of Enemies (1915)
  • A Home Breaking Hound (1915)
  • Love, Loot and Crash (1915)
  • Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915)
  • Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
  • Lover's Luck (1914)
  • Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
  • The Noise of Bombs, The (1914)
  • The Plumber (1914)
  • Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
  • Laughing Gas (1914)
  • A Rowboat Romance (1914)
  • The Thief and the Book (1914)
  • Ten of Spades, The (1914)
  • Cupid in a Dental Parlor (1913)
  • Iola's Promise (1912)

[edit] Death

Despite rumors that Swickard committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood sign, in fact he died from natural causes.

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