William Dudley Pelley(1890-1965)

William Dudley Pelley was born on 12 March 1890 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Come Across (1929), One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day (1919) and The Light in the Dark (1922). He was married to Helen Hansmann and Marian Stone. He died on 30 June 1965 in Noblesville, Indiana, USA.

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Height
- 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Born
- March 12, 1890
- Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Died
- June 30, 1965
- Noblesville, Indiana, USA
Spouses
Other works
Story: "Courtin' Calamity". NOTE: Filmed as The Sawdust Trail (1924).
Publicity listings
- 1 Print Biography
- 6 Articles

Trivia
Founder and head of the nativist, ultra-right-wing and anti-Semitic American political organization The Silver Legion of America, nicknamed the "Silver Shirts," founded in Asheville, NC, in 1933 and disbanded in 1940. He was active in Hollywood and New York film circles from 1921 until 1929, at which date he became a publisher of metaphysical magazines with strong political flavor. His closest friends during those years were Lon Chaney, William Boyd and Neil Hamilton.

Quotes
"Call it the Hereafter, call it Heaven, call it Purgatory, call it the Astral Plane, call it the Fourth Dimension, call it What you will. Whatever it is - and where - that human entities go after being released from their physical limitations, I had gone there that night."
(recounting the "seven minutes of Eternity" he had in California on a
May night in 1928 when he left his body and bathed in an ornate pool "among jolly, worthwhile people".)