Tom Santschi

Tom Santschi
Born	Paul William Santschi (1880-10-24)October 24, 1880 Crystal City, Missouri, U.S.
Died	April 9, 1931(1931-04-09) (aged 50) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor

Paul William "Tom" Santschi (October 24, 1880, Crystal City, Missouri - April 9, 1931, Los Angeles, California) was an American leading man and character actor of the silent film era.

Career

Santschi acted in over 245 films during the period 1907-1931, and directed 28 during 1914-1916. He wrote one screen play in 1914. A 1915 two-reeler In the King's Service, in which he starred with Marion Warner, surfaced at a yard sale in Maine, and was shown along with The Spoilers (1914) at a Northeast Historic Film Festival at Bucksport, Maine in 2002.

Death

Santschi died in his sleep from a heart attack at the age of 52. He was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. His gravestone gives his year of birth as 1880.

Selected filmography

• Ben's Kid (1909)
• Pride of the Range (1910)
• Across the Plains (1910)
• Davy Crockett (1910)
• The New Superintendent (1911)
• Alas! Poor Yorick! (1913)
• The Spoilers (1914)
• The Crisis (1916)
• The Hell Cat (1918)
• Shadows (1919)
• Eve in Exile (1919)
• Two Kinds of Women (1922)
• Is Divorce A Failure? (1923)
• The Plunderer (1924)
• Paths to Paradise (1925)
• Beyond the Border (1925)
• Jim, the Conqueror (1926)
• The Third Degree (1926)
• 3 Bad Men (1926)
• The Desert's Toll (1926)
• Her Honor, the Governor (1926)
• Eyes of the Totem (1927)
• When a Man Loves (1927)
• Old San Francisco (1927)
• Tracked by the Police (1927)
• Vultures of the Sea (1928)
• The Utah Kid (1930)
• King of the Wild (1931)
• The Phantom of the West (1931)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tom Santschi.

• Tom Santschi at the Internet Movie Database