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Frank Tinney

Overview

  • Born
    March 29, 1878 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Died
    November 28, 1940 · Northport, Long Island, New York, USA (pulmonary disease)
  • Birth name
    Frank Aloysius Robert Tinney

Biography

  • Frank Tinney was born on March 29, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Governor's Boss (1915) and Broadway After Dark (1924). He was married to Edna Davenport. He died on November 28, 1940 in Northport, Long Island, New York, USA.

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  • Spouse
      Edna Davenport(August 19, 1913 - November 28, 1925) (divorced, 1 child)

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  • His son, Frank, Jr., was born in January 1918. He later appeared in the 1933 Cecil B. DeMille film This Day and Age, along with the namesake sons of actors Eric von Stroheim, Wallace Reid, Bryant Washburn, Carlyle Blackwell, Neal Hart and Fred Kohler. Tinney's son later became a U. S. Air Force officer who saw service during World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
  • Star vaudeville and Broadway blackface comedian.

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