Trivia

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.

Child: John Huntley Long

One late night, in June 1915, Edward Dillon came home to find his bungalow on fire, as Long, W.E. Lawrence, Chester Withey, Irene Hunt, Teddy Sampson, George Siegmann, Fay Tincher, Ford Sterling, Franc Newman and George Beranger, all wearing pajamas, tried to put out the flames. Their work was praised by the Los Angeles fire department, which found that the blaze had been caused by crossed wires, causing apparently serious damage.