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Dan Mason | |
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.jpg) Mason in 1902 | |
| Born | Daniel Grassman February 9, 1857 Syracuse, New York, U.S.[1] |
| Died | July 6, 1929 (aged 72) Bearsville, New York, U.S.[1] |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1913–1929 |
Dan Mason (born Daniel Grassman; February 9, 1857 – July 6, 1929) was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1913 to 1929. He performed as the "Skipper" in the "Toonerville Folks" comedy short films.[2] He performed as Pop Tuttle in the Plump Center Comedies short films, for Paul Gerson Pictures Corporation.
Career
[edit]From 1913 to 1915, Mason performed for Edison Studios with William Wadsworth, Gertrude McCoy and Arthur Housman.[1]
From 1920 to 1922, Mason starred for the Betzwood Film Company (1912-1922),[3] an organization distantly affiliated with the defunct Lubin Manufacturing Company (1902-1916), in the Toonerville Trolley Series: 17 two-reel short films.[4]
They were adapted from Toonerville Folks an American newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox
They were directed by Ira M. Lowry[5] (For the Freedom of the East[6]), with Wilma Wild, Robert Maximilian, Helen Gerould Rose and Wilma Wilcox. All of the Toonerville films were directed by Ira M. Lowry, except for The Skipper's Treasure Garden, which was directed by Robert Eddy.[7]
In the films, Dan Mason played the driver of a horse-drawn trolley in a small town.
The first of the series, The Toonerville Trolley That Meets all Trains,[8] debuted in September 1920.
Only 7 films of the series are extant (still exist):
- The Skipper's Narrow Escape (1920)[9][10]
- Boos-em Friends[11]
- The Skipper's Flirtation[12]
- The Skipper's Flirtation[13]
- Toonerville Tactics[14]
- The Skipper's Treasure Garden[15]
- Toonerville's Fire Brigade[16]
Other lost films in the series have been documented:
- The Skipper's Scheme[17]
- The Skipper Has His Fling[18]
- Toonerville Tangle[19]
- The Skipper's Sermon (1922), directed by Ira M. Lowry[20]
Dan Mason, who was 63, plays an old, tall, thin man with a long, white beard, who wears a cap.
Later, from August 1922 to May 1923, for Gerson Pictures Corporation, directed by Robert Eddy, Mason played Pop Tuttle in the Plump Center Comedies short films,[1] set in an imaginary city, Plump Center, with performers: Wilna Hervey, Oliver J. Eckhart[21] and Helen Howell:
- Pop Tuttle's Movie Queen (1922)[22]
- Pop Tuttle's One Horse Play (1922)[23]
- Pop Tuttle's Clever Catch (1922)[24]
- Pop Tuttle, Fire Chief (1922)[25]
- Pop Tuttle's Grass Widow (1922)[26]
- Pop Tuttle, Deteckative (1922)[27]
- Pop Tuttle's Long Shot (1923)[28]
- Pop Tuttle's Polecat Plot (1923)[29]
- Pop Tuttle's Lost Control (1923)[30]
- Pop Tuttle's Lost Nerve (1923)[31]
- Pop Tuttle's Russian Rumor (1923)[32]
- Pop Tuttle's Tack-Tics (1923)[33]
Filmography
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1914 | The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies | ||
| 1917 | Over the Hill | Reverend Timothy Neal | |
| 1918 | Jack Spurlock, Prodigal | Spurlock, Sr. | |
| All Woman | Cabdriver | ||
| 1919 | Lure of Ambition | Sylvester Dolan | |
| 1921 | Why Girls Leave Home | Dodo | |
| 1922 | Iron to Gold | Lem Baldwin | |
| 1924 | Conductor 1492 | Mike O'Toole | |
| Idle Tongues | Henry Ward Beecher Payson | ||
| 1925 | Wages for Wives | Mr. Tevis | |
| The Big Parade | |||
| Seven Sinners | Doctor | ||
| Sally | Pops Shendorf | ||
| 1926 | The Fire Brigade | Peg Leg Murphy | |
| 1927 | The Hero on Horseback | Jimmie Breeze | |
| 1927 | Out All Night | Uncle |
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Faivre, Antoine; Couderc, Jean-Jacques (March 14, 2000). Les Petits Maîtres du burlesque américain, 1909-1929 (in French). CNRS Editions. ISBN 9782271056917. Retrieved August 14, 2026.
- ↑ Dan Mason at the Betzwood Film Archive
- ↑ Greene, Lawrence. "Betzwood Studios". Library. Montgomery County Community College. Retrieved September 2, 2026.
- ↑ Greene, Lawrence. "Toonerville Trolley series: Betzwood Film Co. 1920-1921". Library. Montgomery County Community College. Retrieved September 2, 2026.
- ↑ "Ira M Lowry". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "For the Freedom of the East". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ Greene, Lawrence. "Wilna Hervey". Library, Montgomery County Community College.
- ↑ "The Toonerville Trolley That Meets all Trains". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "The Skipper's Narrow Escape". George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.
- ↑ "The Skipper's Narrow Escape". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Boos-em Friends". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "The Skipper's Flirtation". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "The Skipper's Flirtation". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Toonerville Tactics". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "The Skipper's Treasure Garden". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Toonerville's Fire Brigade". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "The Skipper's Scheme". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "The Skipper Has His Fling". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Toonerville Tangle". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "The Skipper's Sermon" – via www.bdfci.info.
- ↑ Oliver J. Eckhardt; born September 14, 1873, St. Louis, Missouri; died September 15, 1952, in Hollywood, California, aged 79;
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Movie Queen". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's One Horse Play". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Clever Catch". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle, Fire Chief". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Grass Widow". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle, Deteckative". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Long Shot". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Polecat Plot". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Lost Control". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Lost Nerve". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Russian Rumor". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ↑ "Pop Tuttle's Tack-Tics". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
External links
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- Dan Mason at the Internet Broadway Database
- Dan Mason at AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Dan Mason at IMDb
- "Ira M Lowry (1889-1951)". Find a Grave.
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