W.S. Percy, a famous Australian comedian, visited the United States while on vacation in 1913. At the Thanhouser studio in New Rochelle he was filmed in the title role in Percy’s First Holiday, a film released in 1914.
W.S. Percy
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
This has no online copy. Its page says what is known about where a print might be.
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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. 66 words.
William S. Percy was born in Melbourne, Australia on December 23, 1872. He followed a career as an actor and comedian. His death occurred on June 19, 1946.
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, “PERCY, W.S.” thanhouser.org/research/people/w-s-percy/