James O. Barrows

James O. Barrows
Born	James O. Barrows March 29, 1855 Copperopolis, California
Died	December 7, 1925 (aged 70) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1870s - 1925

James O. Barrows (March 29, 1855 - December 7, 1925)^[1] was an American stage and film actor. He spent much of his adult life in the legitimate theater from the Victorian to Edwardian to Georgian eras.^[2] He left the legitimate theatre and spent half a dozen years in vaudeville.^[3] In 1919 he began appearing in silent feature films playing elderly roles much like theater colleagues of his generation i.e. Melbourne MacDowell, Ida Waterman, Joseph J. Dowling, Frank Currier and Theodore Roberts. Barrows can be seen in several surviving silent films, his last being the 1925 John Barrymore starrer The Sea Beast completed just before his death.

Filmography

• Brothers Divided (1919)
• The Lord Loves the Irish (1919)
• The Inferior Sex (1920)
• The White Dove (1920)
• When Dawn Came (1920)
• Dangerous to Men (1920)
• The Untamed (1920)
• Down Home (1920)
• Unseen Forces (1920)
• Silent Years (1921)
• The Call of Home (1922)
• Hurricane's Gal (1922)
• White Shoulders (1922)
• Pawned (1922)
• The Pride of Palomar (1922)(*as James Barrows)
• When Love Comes (1922)
• Shadows of the North (1923)
• Cause for Divorce (1923)
• Stephen Steps Out (1923)
• The Old Fool (1923)
• Fight and Win (1924)
• Young Ideas (1924)
• The Signal Tower (1924)
• The Gaiety Girl (1924)
• The Title Holder (1924) (*short)
• Her Night of Romance (1924)
• The Tomboy (1924)
• Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)
• The Price of Pleasure (1925)
• The Goose Woman (1925)
• The Sea Beast (1926)

References

1. James O. Barrows; findagrave.com
2. James O. Barrows: North American Theatre Online; AlexanderStreet
3. The Actor's Birtday Book, January 1-December 31, 1907, page 81, by Johnson Briscoe

External links

• James O. Barrows at the Internet Movie Database
• James O. Barrows at the Internet Broadway Database