Gardner Crane was an actor with Thanhouser in 1913 and 1914.
Gardner Crane
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on 2 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
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. 210 words.
Gardner Crane was born on July 4, 1867 (one account says July 4, 1874). He was educated at Derby College, Hingham, Massachusetts, and Thayer College at Braintree in the same state. An account of his career given in The Detroit Journal, March 8, 1916 stated that upon his graduation from high school, Gardner Crane was given a ticket to Baltimore by his father, who persuaded him to enter the University of Maryland to study law, which he did for just two months before quitting to go on the stage in New York City.
However, it is believed that his stage debut occurred in Rinaldo, in Boston in March 1895, where he had a bit part with just a few lines. Later he was seen with various stock companies in New York and elsewhere, in Niobe, The Last Stroke, and dozens of other productions. Later in his stage career, but before World War I, he appeared in skits with his wife, Margaret Crane. He was in films with Thanhouser in 1913 and 1914. In 1916 he was on stage in On Trial and Miss Helen Smith. Gardner Crane died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California on June 8, 1939.
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, “CRANE, Gardner.” thanhouser.org/research/people/gardner-crane/