Volume III: Biographies

MARTIN, Lawrence *

Actor (c.1912-1913)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Lawrence Martin was an actor in minor roles for Thanhouser circa 1912-1913. The Evening Standard, April 21, 1913, carried this notice: "Lawrence Martin, 9 Guion Street, a Thanhouser actor, was taken Saturday to the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane. It is said he may recover. For some time Martin's eyesight had been failing and he has worried greatly. Recently he began to act queerly. He was arrested on Thursday on a technical charge, examined by local physicians on the order of health officer Edwin H. Codding, and pronounced insane. He was committed by Judge Samuel F. Swinburne."

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