Player

Sam Bolnik

A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.

Biography

Sam Bolnik, a boy, appeared in the 1912 Thanhouser release of Taking Care of Baby. He may have been related to Hyman Bolnik, whose home was contiguous to the first Thanhouser studio and which was one of two residences destroyed in the disastrous fire of January 13, 1913.

From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓

Filmography

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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 58 words.

Note: The surname was spelled as Bolnick in certain mentions.

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, “BOLNIK, Sam.” thanhouser.org/research/people/sam-bolnik/