Cortlandt J. Van Deusen was an actor with Thanhouser at one time, according to a listing in the 1917 Motion Picture News Studio Directory.
Cortlandt J. Van Deusen
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 132 words.
Cortlandt J. Van Deusen was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 12, 1890 and was educated at the Polytechnic College. His early career was as a stockbroker, after which he went on the stage with Shubert and the Crescent Stock Company. In motion pictures he worked with Kalem, Utah Motion Picture Company (Jasper Smith; One Hundred Years of Mormonism), Kinemacolor, Thanhouser, Biograph, and Vitagraph. In directories published in the late teens Van Deusen was listed as a director. In 1917 he was with Vitagraph in Brooklyn, New York. In 1921 he was with the Apex Film Company, and his address was 514 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “VAN DEUSEN, Cortlandt J.” thanhouser.org/research/people/cortlandt-j-van-deusen/