- Born
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- Birth nameWalter Huntley Long
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Early in his career Walter Long was married to Luray Huntley, an actress for D.W. Griffith's stock company. Huntley and Long performed together in several of Griffith's films, including Traffic in Souls (1913), Let Katie Do It (1916), and Intolerance (1916). They remained married until her death in 1919 at the age of 28 as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic.
- IMDb mini biography by: Travisty
- SpouseLuray Huntley(? - January 2, 1919) (her death)
- Despite his mean, tough-guy appearance on film, he was reported to be one of the warmest, nicest people in the business.
- Shaven-headed tough guy actor who appeared in many D.W. Griffith films (once notoriously as a Negro villain in The Birth of a Nation (1915), in blackface make-up),but is perhaps now best remembered as a scowling comic villain in several Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy films.
- Served as Captain of the Military Police during World War II in Washington DC and Virginia.
- Recognisable as the vicious skipper in the film 'The Live Ghost' who twisted Stan and Ollie's heads around. He'd previously played a similar role in Moran of the Lady Letty in which he shanghaied Rudolph Valentino.
- Died of a heart attack while watching the fireworks display at the Coliseum in Los Angeles, during the Fourth of July celebration.
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