In 1912 William Wheeler appeared in a Thanhouser film.
William B. Wheeler
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
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From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 148 words.
William Wheeler, superintendent of the Westchester Electric Railway Company, acted in a cameo role in a 1912 Thanhouser film. He was not a regular actor. For 34 years he was a resident of New Rochelle, where he was active in public affairs, including a 12-year stint as fire commissioner. In June 1940 he retired as superintendent of transportation for the Third Avenue Railway System in New York City, and on September 6, 1941 he died at St. Vincent’s Hospital. An obituary notice in The New York Times, September 7, 1941, stated that his age was 67, theat he had been born in Brooklyn, and at the time of his death his residence was 4152 East 177th Street, Bronx, New York. He was survived by his widow, the former Elizabeth Jackson; and two sons, William W. and Walter F. Wheeler.
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, “WHEELER, William B.” thanhouser.org/research/people/william-b-wheeler/