Charles Mather was an actor with Thanhouser in 1914.
Charles Mather
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on 5 Thanhouser films. None is online, and no print of any is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
- 1914The Harlow HandicapLost
- 1914The Leaven of GoodLost
- 1914The Messenger of DeathLost
- 1914Her Big BrotherLost
- 1914When Vice ShudderedLost
These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.
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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. 204 words.
On April 26, 1916 Charles Mather married former Thanhouser actress Fan Bourke. At the time, Mather was a member of the Frank Wilcox Stock Company at the Little Playhouse, Mount Vernon, New York.
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An individual named Charles Mather graduated from Lake Forest (Illinois) College in 1914 and at the time had an interest in drama. In 1921 he was named to the faculty of the Culver (Indiana) Military Academy, and in 1935 became head of the English Department there. In the 1920s he wrote skits for the Ziegfeld Follies, and in later summers he was seen at the Silver Beach Theatre in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 71, on August 25, 1962, and was survived by two daughters, Mrs. James E. Cocker and Mrs. E.M. Wehner.
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Another Charles Mather was the manager of the Lytell-Vaughan Company at the Auditorium, in the 1910 production of The Crisis. At another time he was stage manager for Springtime for Henry.
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In 1933, a Charles Mather was appointed stage manager of The Pursuit of Happiness, at the Avon Theatre in New York City.
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, “MATHER, Charles.” thanhouser.org/research/people/charles-mather/