- Father of Bonita Granville.
- He began his career playing in minstrel shows and later as a clown for Ringling Brother's Circus.
- During his vaudeville days he often worked with Will Rogers.
- His first big success on stage came when he appeared in "Marriage a la Carte" at the La Salle Theater in Chicago.
- In 1912 he began a long working relationship with Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and the Ziegfeld Follies.
- During World War I, he served as aviator with the Second Field Army in France.
- Served in France in WWI. Was publicity director for the 1923 organizational meeting in NYC of the founding of the American Association for the Study and Cure of Cancer.
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