Is Spencer Bell G. Howe Black?
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:52 pm
Wow, an almost interesting conversation on the Facebook Slapstick page today:
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This is interesting because this struck me several years ago when I rewatched THE PERFECT CLOWN on a big screen, I had always assumed that Spencer Bell and G. Howe Black were one and the same as well, but when I re-watched THE PERFECT CLOWN after many years in between viewings and had seen Spencer Bell in a lot more Sennett, Educational and Larry Darmour comedies, it indeed struck me that G. Howe Black was indeed someone else. Black is thinner than Bell, and perhaps a bit taller and maybe younger, but that said, they do have a lot of similar facial features, both have very high cheek bones that go back far under their eyes and it makes me ask the nest question, did Spencer Bell have a brother?
G Howe Black definitely seems to disappear after early 1926, and he seems to have been under contract to Chadwick Pictures Corp as ll his known films are for them, including the two George Walsh pictures, BLUE BLOOD and THE PRINCE OF BROADWAY. Black is mentioned in the publicity releases for all the Chadwick Pictures he appears in , but I've seen no info on him from 1926 on.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
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This is interesting because this struck me several years ago when I rewatched THE PERFECT CLOWN on a big screen, I had always assumed that Spencer Bell and G. Howe Black were one and the same as well, but when I re-watched THE PERFECT CLOWN after many years in between viewings and had seen Spencer Bell in a lot more Sennett, Educational and Larry Darmour comedies, it indeed struck me that G. Howe Black was indeed someone else. Black is thinner than Bell, and perhaps a bit taller and maybe younger, but that said, they do have a lot of similar facial features, both have very high cheek bones that go back far under their eyes and it makes me ask the nest question, did Spencer Bell have a brother?
G Howe Black definitely seems to disappear after early 1926, and he seems to have been under contract to Chadwick Pictures Corp as ll his known films are for them, including the two George Walsh pictures, BLUE BLOOD and THE PRINCE OF BROADWAY. Black is mentioned in the publicity releases for all the Chadwick Pictures he appears in , but I've seen no info on him from 1926 on.
RICHARD M ROBERTS