Carter DeHaven

Carter DeHaven
Born	Francis O'Callaghan (1886-10-05)October 5, 1886 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died	July 20, 1977(1977-07-20) (aged 90) Los Angeles, California, United States
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Occupation	Actor, director and writer
Years active	1903-1965
Spouse(s)	Flora Parker DeHaven
Children	Gloria DeHaven

Carter DeHaven (born Francis O'Callaghan, October 5, 1886 – July 20, 1977) was an American movie and stage actor, movie director, and writer.

Career

DeHaven started his career in vaudeville and started acting in movies in 1915. He regularly starred in comedy shorts up until 1923. While working for Paramount in 1920, some of these were directed by Charley Chase.

A 1927 short, Character Studies, purports to display DeHaven's quick-change abilities, as he transforms himself in seconds into the spit and image of various major film stars of the era: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and 13-year old Jackie Coogan. This was the only film in which Keaton and Lloyd appeared together and also marked Keaton's last film appearance with Arbuckle, his former partner.

DeHaven went on to work with Charlie Chaplin, as assistant director on Modern Times (1936) and assistant producer for The Great Dictator (1940). In the latter film, he also played the Bacterian Ambassador.

In the 1959-60 season, Carter DeHaven appeared four times in various roles and his daughter Gloria DeHaven once, as Rosemary Blaker in the episode "Love Affair", of the CBS western television series, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant. At this time he also guest starred on the ABC sitcom, The Donna Reed Show in the role of Fred Miller in "It Only Hurts When I Laugh".

In 1965, DeHaven played "Henry", an old man walking with his wife in a park, in the Bewitched episode "Eye of the Beholder".^[1]

Personal life and death

He was married to actress Flora Parker DeHaven. They would often be paired together in films such as The College Orphan (1915) and Twin Beds (1920). Their daughter, actress Gloria DeHaven, made her first screen appearance in Modern Times. Both Carter and Gloria DeHaven have their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Carter DeHaven died in 1977 at age 90 and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Partial filmography

Carter and Flora Parker DeHaven in an advertisement for their film Their Day of Rest (1919)

• From Broadway to a Throne (1916)
• Their Day of Rest (1919)
• Am I Dreaming? (1920)
• Twin Beds (1920)
• The Thoroughbred (1925)
• The Great Dictator (1940)

External links

• Carter DeHaven at the Internet Movie Database
• Carter DeHaven and Flora DeHaven portrait

References

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