Biography

Edward Le Veque was born on June 4, 1896 in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Wild Wild West (1965), Adventures of Superman (1952) and Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976). He was married to Florence L. Gilbert. He died on January 28, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Edward Le Veque received honors and acclaim in his later years due to his being, supposedly, the last survivor of the famed Keystone Kops of the silent era. However, Le Veque's 1920 passport application contains his sworn statement that he had only visited the United States a few times as a child prior to 1909 and that his four years of adulthood had been spent, until 1920, as a salesman in Dallas, Texas. As a boy in Juarez, Mexico, he apparently delivered newspapers on horseback to subscribers in nearby East El Paso and worked as a sales clerk in his father's curio shop. His passport application was for the purpose of travel to Tampico, Mexico to work in the oil fields there. There is no indication that he ever worked in films in Hollywood or elsewhere prior to his 1957 television debut, nearly 40 years after the original Keystone Kops flourished.