Volume III: Biographies

MC CARTHY, Myles *

Actor (1916)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Myles McCarthy was an actor with Thanhouser at the Jacksonville studio in 1916.

Biographical Notes: Myles (also spelled Miles) McCarthy was born in Toronto, Canada on April 27, 1874 and was educated at McGill University in Montreal. He followed a stage career under the management of the Frohmans, E.E. Rice, W.E. Nankeville, Charles B. Dillingham, George Broadhurst, and others, and at one time was a headliner in vaudeville. In 1907 he was on stage for Tony Pastor, the impresario who had given him his first important role in vaudeville years earlier in A Race Tout's Dream. His film career included work with Selig, Gaumont, Thanhouser, Eagle, West Coast, Powers, Reliance, National, and others. His film credits included The Crimson Mask, Inoculation, Two of a Kind, A Wife's Peril, The Red Scourge, A Modern Humpty Dumpty, etc. While at the Thanhouser studio Myles McCarthy played minor roles, and he did not appear in publicity. The Florida Metropolis, Jacksonville, April 10, 1916, carried this item: "Myles McCarthy, formerly with the Eagle Company, takes a turn [on stage] at the Orpheum during the afternoon and night, and works with Thanhouser during the morning."

The actor was 5'11" tall, had iron gray hair and blue eyes, and in 1916 weighed 163 pounds. Directories published 1916-1918 gave his home address as the Grenoble Hotel, 56th Street and 7th Avenue, New York City. His pastimes included swimming, horseback riding, and literary pursuits. Myles McCarthy remained in films through the late 1920s and died of a heart attack on September 27, 1928, in Hollywood.

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