List of surviving silent film actors
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Most actors from the silent film era are deceased, but a few still survive. This article deals with the surviving silent film actors or living actors whose first work was in silent films. This list does not include actors from "experimental" attempts at silent films that have been made since the 1950s. As might be expected many, but not all, of the surviving silent film actors were child actors.
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- Diana Serra Cary (born 1918) - "Baby Peggy"
- Frank Coghlan Jr. (born 1916) - Child actor appeared in Gone with the Wind.
- Jean Darling (born 1922) - Silent era Our Gang actress.
- Marie Glory (born 1905) - French actress who started in 1924.
- Virginia Davis (born 1918) - Child star, Alice in silent-era Disney work of the 1920s.
- Jean Delannoy (born 1908) - Appeared in the 1928 silent film La Grande Passion before becoming a film director and editor.
- Johannes Heesters (born 1903) - In 1924's Cirque Hollandaise, a silent.
- Pola Illéry (born 1908) - Romanian silent film actress
- Dorothy Janis (born 1910) - Retired actress whose career lasted two years.
- Barbara Kent (born 1906) - Retired in the 1930s, and does not talk about her acting days.
- Carla Laemmle (born 1909) - Niece of Carl Laemmle, who made a few small roles in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Baby Marie (born 1911) - Early child star featured or starring in 29 films.
- Michael D. Moore (born 1914) - Former child actor, went on to become an assistant director.
- Anita Page (born 1910) - She was in The Broadway Melody, and attended the first Oscar presentations.
- Mickey Rooney (born 1920) - Most known in "talkies", but did silent-era short films in the series Toonerville Folks.
- Miriam Seegar (born 1907) - Started on stage and moved on to silent films before switching to sound film, also in the 2000 documentary I Used Be in Pictures.[1]
- Lupita Tovar (born 1911) - Appeared in The Veiled Woman in 1929.
- Doris Eaton Travis (born 1904) - A former Ziegfeld girl, mostly in theatre, but did also some silent films.
- Coy Watson Jr. (born 1912) - A child actor who debuted at age 9.
