Jack Pickford
Actor, Film actor
1896 – 1933
Who was Jack Pickford?
Jack Pickford was a Canadian-born American actor and film director, brother of early film star Mary Pickford.
After their father deserted the family, all three Pickford children had to take work as child actors. When Mary broke into films, Jack went to Hollywood with her, but was never in her league. When she signed her first $1 million contract, he was mostly playing the boy-next-door in B-films. Some claimed that he had great talent, but suffered from living in her shadow. At any rate, his life of drink, drugs, syphilis and scandal ruled out any career success, and his three marriages to showgirls all ended in failure. Pickford died in Paris of progressive multiple neuritis, aged thirty-six.
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- Born
- Aug 18, 1896
Toronto - Also known as
- John Charles Smith
- Johnny Pickford
- Jack Smith
- John Carl Smith
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Olive Thomas
(1916/10/25 - 1920/09/10) - Marilyn Miller
(1922/07/30 - 1927/11/02) - Mary Mulhern
(1930/08/12 - 1933/01/03)
- Olive Thomas
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Lived in
- Toronto
- Died
- Jan 3, 1933
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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