Volume III: Biographies

MERVALE, Gaston *

Actor (1914)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Gaston Mervale appeared in Dope, a film by Direct-From-Broadway Features, a Thanhouser "special production" released circa April 1, 1914. He was not a regular Thanhouser actor.

Biographical Notes: Gaston Mervale was known primarily as a stage actor who traveled with several companies over a period of years. In April 1913 he was in the cast of Witness for the Defense at the Davidson Theatre in Milwaukee and was in the same play that summer with the Hartman Theatre stock company in Columbus, Ohio. Around the same time he wrote a vaudeville sketch, The Second Ash Tray. Gaston Mervale was seen in just one Thanhouser film, Dope, a special production. He was a screen actor with Vitagraph and was seen in Warfare of the Skies, released in the summer of 1914, a few weeks before the World War broke out. Later, he was director general of the Art Film Company in Philadelphia after which, in 1916, he went to Australia to do work as a stage actor and director. In earlier years, he had appeared in Australia in two separate engagements arranged through J.C. Williamson, Ltd.

Thanhouser Filmography:

1914: Dope (Direct-From-Broadway Features c. 4-1-1914)

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