Matt B. Snyder

For other persons with this name see and Matt Snider

Matt B. Snyder
Beatriz Michelena and Matt B. Snyder in Salomy Jane (1914)
Born	March 22, 1835
Died	January 17, 1917 (aged 81) San Francisco, California
Other names	Matt Snyder M. B. Snyder
Occupation	Actor
Years active	?1860s - 1917

Matt B. Snyder (March 22, 1835 – January 17, 1917^[1]) was an American stage and silent screen actor and a Civil War veteran.

Biography

Snyder is amongst the earliest born actors to appear in motion pictures and at his death the oldest actor in movies. Snyder was born when Andrew Jackson was President and died when Woodrow Wilson was President.

During the Civil War Snyder served in the Union Navy and was a gunner on the USS Essex at Vicksburg. In the Victorian and Edwardian eras Snyder and his wife performed on the stage, sometimes on Broadway and much in touring companies as was the norm before motion pictures. In film he had an important role in the 1913 King Baggot Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His last film was The Crisis, a film by novelist Winston Churchill about the Civil War which he did not live to see released. The Crisis is a surviving film at the Library of Congress and Snyder can seen in this role in a still photo in Daniel Blum's Pictorial History of the Silent Screen with his young costar Marshall Neilan.^[2][3]

Selected filmography

• The Cub Reporter's Temptation (1913)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
• Salomy Jane (1914)
• The Heart of Maryland (1915)
• The Crisis (1916)

References

1. Matt Snyder at findagrave.com
2. The Crisis, Mississippi's First Civil War Film; page [Mississippians in the Confederate Army
3. Matt B. Snyder at IBDb.com database

External links

• Matt B. Snyder at the Internet Movie Database
• Portrait of Matt B. Snyder (New York Public Library, Billy Rose Collection)
• Snyder in a 1905 play, right, called The Romance of Athlone (University of Washington, Sayre collection)