“Big Chief” Bender, a baseball player, appeared in a Thanhouser film in 1911.
“Big Chief” Bender
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
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The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 70 words.
Charles Albert (“Big Chief”) Bender was born in Brainerd, Minnesota on May 5, 1883. A member of the Philadelphia Athletics, baseball world’s champions, he appeared in The Baseball Bug, a Thanhouser film released on November 24, 1911. Also appearing from the same team were Jack Coombs, Rube Oldring, and Cy Morgan. Bender died on May 22, 1954.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “BENDER, “Big Chief”.” thanhouser.org/research/people/big-chief-bender/