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Thomas Fortune

A Thanhouser Company player.

Biography

In late 1910 and early 1911 Thomas Fortune was an actor for the Thanhouser Company.

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

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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. 79 words.

For a brief time toward the end of 1910 and in early 1911, Thomas Fortune was featured in lobby exhibits showing photographs of 12 members of the Thanhouser stock company but was rarely mentioned in other publicity. In 1914 Thomas Fortune was a technical director for Jesse Lasky in Hollywood. His death occurred at the age of 65, in Hollywood on March 16, 1943.

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “FORTUNE, Thomas.” thanhouser.org/research/people/thomas-fortune/