Wallace Worsley, Jr., an infant, appeared in a Thanhouser film, circa 1911.
Wallace Worsley, Jr.
A Thanhouser Company player.
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 113 words.
Wallace Worsley, Jr., born in 1908, is the son of actress Julia M. Taylor (who appeared in Thanhouser films) and director Wallace Worsley. He appeared in a bit part in a Thanhouser film, title unknown, when he was about two and one-half years old. He was on the Thanhouser premises when a child was needed, and played a part in which he ran around a table.
“As to my name, I used Wallace Worsley, Jr. until Dad passed on in 1944 [March 26]. I have not used the junior since,” Mr. Worsley noted in a communication to the author in 1987.
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “WORSLEY, Wallace, Jr.” thanhouser.org/research/people/wallace-worsley-jr/