Wayland Trask, Jr.

Wayland Trask, Jr.
Born	July 16, 1887 New York City, New York
Died	November 18, 1918 Los Angeles, California
Resting place	Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor, Comedian
Years active	1910-1918(including stage years)

Wayland Trask, Jr (July 16, 1887 - November 18, 1918) was a silent film comedian who was a member of Mack Sennett's stock company of actors. Trask also had a theatrical background appearing in at least two Broadway plays before turning to screen comedy. He died at the end of 1918 in the Spanish Influenza pandemic eleven months after the disease had taken his mother. Trask's father was a stockbroker who died in 1905.^[1] Trask also had two sisters. In looks he was tall like Chaplin's co-star Eric Campbell and resembled the later Sennett comedian Kewpie Morgan. Some of his performances in Sennett comedies survive such as Bombs (aka Bombs and Brides).^[2][3]

Selected filmography

• A Game Old Knight (1915)
• The Great Vacuum Robbery (1915)
• Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915)
• The Feathered Nest (1916)
• The Great Pearl Tangle (1916)
• Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
• A Movie Star (1916)
• Fido's Fate (1916)
• His Hereafter (1916)
• His Auto Fruination (1916)
• The Judge (1916)
• A Love Riot (1916)
• By Stork Delivery (1916)
• His Bread and Butter (1916)
• The Pullman Bride (1917)

References

1. Silent Film Necrology 2nd Edition by Eugene Michael Vazzana, c.2001
2. Wayland Trask; findagrave.com database
3. Who Was Who on Screen, 3rd Edition; c.1983, by Evelyn Mack Truitt

External links

• Wayland Trask, Jr. at IMDb
• Wayland Trask at IBDb.com
• Bombs and Brides, surviving 1916 silent Sennett comedy on YouTube