John Gleason was employed by the Thanhouser Company in 1912 and 1913.
John Gleason
A member of the Thanhouser Company.
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 101 words.
John Gleason was a Thanhouser employee in 1912 and attended the Thanhouser outing held for employees and friends on September 7, 1912. At the event he won the men’s potato race. He was on the floor committee for the Thanhouser employees’ masquerade ball held at Germania Hall, New Rochelle, on Monday evening, March 31, 1913.
Note: Jack Gleason, possibly the same person, was listed in the New Rochelle directory as an actor in 1916. At the time he lived with Walter Gleason, also an actor, at 21 Lincoln Street.
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “GLEASON, John.” thanhouser.org/research/people/john-gleason/