Hal Salter(1886-1928)
- Actor
American actor who entered pictures when ill health forced him to
reduce his active stage career. He was raised in Williamstown,
Massachusetts, where his father was a department chairman at Williams
College. His mother was the well-known classical composer Mary Turner
Salter. He spent many years in vaudeville and stock, and made his
Broadway debut in 1912. During a 1926 tour in which he played one of
the leading roles in "What Price Glory?" Salter was stricken with
influenza and forced to leave the show. His health did not allow him to
return to the stage as actively as before, but he did manage a play in
Australia, before returning to America and making a few pictures,
primarily Westerns. But his health had declined drastically since the
1926 influenza bout. He died at 42 from complications of
influenza.
