John Maher appeared in Thanhouser films in 1912.
John Maher
A Thanhouser Company player, in one film you can watch free online.
Watch John MaherOpens Nicholas Nickleby (1912)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Films you can watch
Other Thanhouser films
This has no online copy. Its page says what is known about where a print might be.
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. 90 words.
The following obituary appeared in Variety, April 28, 1943, and may have pertained to the Thanhouser player: “John Maher, 52, known as the ‘Irish Troubadour’ on the vaudeville circuit a generation ago, was found dead in his St. Louis hotel room last week. His death was attributed to natural causes. Maher, composer of A Little Bit o’ Heaven [actually, this was one of Ernest R. Ball’s songs] and other popular ditties, was emceeing at the Missouri Theatre, St. Louis. A sister survives.”
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, “MAHER, John.” thanhouser.org/research/people/john-maher/