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Charles T. Horan

A Thanhouser Company player, in 2 films you can watch free online.

Watch Charles T. HoranOpens The Star of Bethlehem (1912)

Biography

Charles T. Horan was a Thanhouser actor between about 1912 and 1914, at first only now and then. Born in New York City in 1882 and educated at Fordham, Columbia and Yale, he sang in grand opera and played in stock before turning to film.

He appeared in The Star of Bethlehem (1912) and pitched for the studio’s baseball team, the “Thanhouser Stars”, then spent a time with the Ryno company before returning to Thanhouser for many 1914 releases. He later directed for Metro and co-directed Goldwyn’s Polly of the Circus (1917). He died in Hollywood in 1928.

A short summary written from the encyclopedia.Read Bowers’ full biography on this page ↓

Filmography

Films you can watch

15:131912 · as Melchoir, one of the MagiThe Star of Bethlehem

16:081914 · as John Henderson [or Mr. Vincent]The Decoy

Other Thanhouser films

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These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.

From the encyclopedia

The full biography

From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 234 words.

Charles T. Horan was an actor, at first on an intermittent basis, with Thanhouser, circa 1912-1914.

Charles T. Horan was born in New York City in 1882 and was educated at Fordham, Columbia, and Yale. The New Rochelle Pioneer, May 18, 1912, stated that at one time he was on Harvard’s baseball team. His stage career included singing in grand opera and playing in stock. Early in his film career he worked with Thanhouser, for whom he appeared in The Star of Bethlehem, released in December 1912. Earlier in the same year he was a pitcher for the “Thanhouser Stars” baseball team. Within a year he was with Ryno (maker of Dragon brand films), where he was employed in the summer of 1913, appearing as the circus ringmaster in Her Last Ride. Soon thereafter, he was again with Thanhouser, where he appeared in many films released in 1914.

He later went to Metro, where he acted in the 1915 Rolfe-for-Metro release of When a Woman Loves and directed the 1916 Rolfe-Metro productions of The Upheaval and The Quitter. He co-directed the September 1917 Goldwyn release of Polly of the Circus. In early 1925, The Devil Within, a stage play written by Charles T. Horan, had its premiere performance in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Featured in the production were Leonore Sorsby and Irene Shirley. Charles T. Horan died in Hollywood, California on January 11, 1928.

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, “HORAN, Charles T.” thanhouser.org/research/people/charles-t-horan/