Rockliffe Fellowes

Rockliffe Fellowes
Rockliffe Fellowes
	Ethel Clayton and Fellowes in The Man Hunt (1918)
Born	17 March 1883; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	28 January 1950 (aged 66); Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality	Canadian
Spouse(s)	Lucile Watson; (m. 190?; div. 19??)

Rockliffe Fellowes (March 17, 1883 – January 28, 1950),[1][2] born Rockliffe St. Patrick Fellowes, was a Canadian actor born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He starred in films such as Regeneration and Monkey Business.

Biography

After following a business career for some years, he gave it up to go onto the stage in 1907 and later made his entry into films as the redemptive hero of Raoul Walsh's 1915 silent gangster film Regeneration. He appeared mostly in silent films and is probably best known today for his role as gangster Joe Helton in Monkey Business (1931) starring the Marx Brothers.

At one time he was married to the stage actress Lucile Watson. He retired from acting in 1934. Fellowes died in Los Angeles, California in 1950 at the age of 66.

Partial filmography

Regeneration (1915)
Where Love Leads (1916)
The Web of Desire (1917)
The Bondage of Fear (1917)
Man's Woman (1917)
Friend Husband (1918)
The Panther Woman (1918)
The Cup of Fury (1920)
Yes or No ? (1920)
In Search of a Sinner (1920)
The Point of View (1920)
The Price of Possession (1921)
Bits of Life (1921)
Island Wives (1922)
Trifling with Honor (1923)
The Remittance Woman (1923)
The Spoilers (1923)
Borrowed Husbands (1924)
Flapper Wives (1924)
The Signal Tower (1924)
Cornered (1924)
The Border Legion (1924)
The Garden of Weeds (1924)
East of Suez (1925)
Counsel for the Defense (1925)
Rose of the World (1925)
Rocking Moon(1926)
Silence (1926)
Honesty – The Best Policy (1926)
Syncopating Sue (1926)
The Taxi Dancer (1927)
The Satin Woman (1927)
Outside the Law (1930)
Monkey Business (1931)
Renegades of the West (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) unbilled
The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
Rusty Rides Alone (1933)
The Back Page (1934)

References

Silent Film Necrology 2nd Edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana...Retrieved June 22, 2018
Who Was Who on Screen c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt..Retrieved June 22, 2018

External links

Rockliffe Fellowes at IMDb
Rockliffe Fellowes at the Internet Broadway Database
Rockcliffe Fellowes portraits (New York City Public Library, Billy Rose collection)

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[1] Silent Film Necrology 2nd Edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana...Retrieved June 22, 2018

[2] Who Was Who on Screen c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt..Retrieved June 22, 2018