Dell Henderson

Acting · Directing · Writing

Born July 4, 1877, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Delbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film. Born in the Southwestern Ontario city of St. Thomas, Dell Henderson started his acting career on the stage, but appeared in his first movie Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court already in 1908. Henderson was a frequent associate of film pioneer D.W. Griffith since 1909 and appeared in numerous of his early shorts in Hollywood. He also acted on a less prolific basis in the movies of producer Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studios. In addition to acting, Henderson also directed nearly 200 silent films between 1911 and 1928. Most of those films are forgotten or lost, but he also directed movies with silent stars like Harry Carey and Roscoe Arbuckle. Henderson also worked as a writer on numerous screenplays. After retiring from directing in 1927, Henderson turned to acting full-time and played important supporting roles in King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) and as General Marmaduke Pepper in Show People (1928). The advent of sound film damaged his acting career, and he often had to play smaller roles. In the 1930s, the comedic character actor appeared on several occasions as a comic foil for such comedians as The Three Stooges, W. C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy. He often played somewhat pompous figures like judges, businessmen, detectives or mayors. Modern audiences will remember Henderson as annoyed hospital president Dr. Graves in The Three Stooges film Men in Black and the put-upon chaperone in the Little Rascals film Choo-Choo!. He also appeared as a Night Court Judge in Laurel and Hardy's Our Relations (1936) and as a friendly Car salesman in Leo McCarey's drama Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). Henderson ended his film career after numerous small roles in 1950. Henderson died of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 79. He was married with actress Florence Lee until his death, they made several silent films together.

Filmography

• 1950Annie Get Your Gun — Hotel Guest in Hammock (uncredited)
• 1949Once More, My Darling — Hotel Clerk
• 1947The Romance of Rosy Ridge — Southerner (uncredited)
• 1946Undercurrent — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1945Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood — Benson (uncredited)
• 1945Main Street After Dark — Plainclothesman (uncredited)
• 1945The Great Morgan — Film Character (uncredited)
• 1944Mr. Winkle Goes to War
• 1944The Missing Juror — Train Conductor (uncredited)
• 1943Du Barry Was a Lady — Flunky (uncredited)
• 1943Slightly Dangerous — Doorman (uncredited)
• 1942Arizona Terrors — President McKinley
• 1942Once Upon a Honeymoon — American Attaché (uncredited)
• 1942The Major and the Minor — Doorman (uncredited)
• 1940Abe Lincoln in Illinois — Minor Role (uncredited)
• 1940Little Orvie — Mr. Brown
• 1940Millionaires in Prison — Dell, Deputy Taking Vander to Prison (uncredited)
• 1940Stranger on the Third Floor — Detective (uncredited)
• 1940You Can't Fool Your Wife — Ritz Amsterdam Manager
• 1940Young People — Eddie's Father (uncredited)
• 1939Fifth Avenue Girl — Headwaiter (uncredited)
• 1939Frontier Marshal — Dave Hall
• 1939Love Affair — Cafe Manager (uncredited)
• 1939The Chump Takes a Bump — Elias J. Smart
• 1938Arsène Lupin Returns — Plainclothes Detective (uncredited)
• 1938Men with Wings — Chairman
• 1938Rebellious Daughters — Mr. Stanley - First Victim
• 1938The Girl of the Golden West — Stagecoach Passenger
• 1937Artists & Models — Lord (uncredited)
• 1937Make Way for Tomorrow — Ed Weldon - Auto Salesman (uncredited)
• 1937The Awful Truth — Vance's Butler (uncredited)
• 1937The Grand Bounce — Harry Briggs (uncredited)
• 1937We Who Are About to Die — Blake's Associate (uncredited)
• 1937Wells Fargo — Customer
• 1936The Texas Rangers — Citizen (uncredited)
• 19353 Kids and a Queen — Reporter
• 1935Diamond Jim — Gambler
• 1935Here Comes Cookie — Lloyd
• 1935Hitch Hike Lady — Williams
• 1935Hot Tip — Sheriff
• 1935Little Big Shot — Policeman
• 1935Ruggles of Red Gap — Sam
• 1935Slightly Static — Mr. Campbell (as Del Henderson)
• 1935Steamboat Round the Bend — Salesman
• 1935The Daring Young Man — Mayor
• 1935The Mystery Man — Mr. Clark, Hotel Manager
• 1935Thunder in the Night — Ambassador - Party Guest
• 1934Bottoms Up — Lane Worthing
• 1934It's a Gift — Mr. Abernathy
• 1934Men in Black — Dr. Graves (uncredited)
• 1934Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch — House Manager
• 1934Something Simple — Tanhauser
• 1934The Notorious Sophie Lang — House Detective
• 1934You're Telling Me! — Mayor (as Del Henderson)
• 1933Goldie Gets Along — Mr. Moon
• 1933Lone Cowboy — Mr. Burton (uncredited)
• 1933On Your Guard — Detective Calvin Carter - aka O'Hara
• 1933Rainbow Over Broadway — Bowers
• 1933Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles — The Masque
• 1933The Big Brain — (uncredited)
• 1933Too Much Harmony — Small Town Theatre Manager
• 1932Choo-Choo! — Mr. Henderson
• 1932Free Eats — Mr. Moran
• 1932In Walked Charley — Delbert Henderson
• 1932Mr. Bride — J. P. Henderson
• 1931Haunted at Midnight — Housekeeper
• 1931Helping Grandma — Henderson
• 1931Newly Rich — Director
• 1931Skip the Maloo! — Mr. Benson
• 1931The Champ — The Doctor (uncredited)
• 1931Thundering Tenors — Senator D.H. Henderson
• 1931Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
• 1930All Teed Up — Judge Quirt
• 1930Big Money
• 1930Bigger and Better — Mr. Kornman
• 1930Chiselers of Hollywood
• 1930Fast Work — Old Faithful
• 1930Getting a Raise
• 1930Looser Than Loose — Mr. Henderson
• 1930Night of Goblins — Housekeeper
• 1930The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case — Housekeeper (uncredited)
• 1930The Sins of the Children — Ted Baldwin
• 1930Up a Tree — Del - Publicity Promoter
• 1930Whispering Whoopee — Mr. Henderson
• 1929Hit the Deck — Admiral
• 1929Off to Buffalo — Charley's boss
• 1929Wrong Again — Painting owner
• 1928Is Everybody Happy?
• 1928Riley the Cop — Judge Coronelli
• 1928Show People — Colonel Pepper
• 1928The Crowd — Dick
• 1928The Patsy — Pa Harrington
• 1928The Power of the Press — Bill Johnson
• 1927Getting Gertie's Garter — Barry Scott
• 1927The Rambling Ranger — Director
• 1926The Clinging Vine — B. Harvey Doolittle
• 1925Accused — Director
• 1925Pursued — Director
• 1925The Bad Lands — Director
• 1924Battling Brewster — Director
• 1924Gambling Wives — Director
• 1924One Law for the Woman — Director
• 1923Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers — Director
• 1922Sure-Fire Flint — Director
• 1922The Broken Silence — Director
• 1921Dead or Alive — Director
• 1921Dynamite Allen — Director
• 1921The Girl from Porcupine — Director
• 1920The Dead Line — Director
• 1920The Shark — Director
• 1919Courage for Two — Director
• 1919Hit or Miss — Director
• 1919Love in a Hurry — Director
• 1919Three Green Eyes — Director
• 1918By Hook or Crook — Director
• 1918Hitting the Trail — Director
• 1918My Wife — Director
• 1918The Beloved Blackmailer — Director
• 1918The Golden Wall — Director
• 1918The Impostor — Director
• 1918The Road to France — Director
• 1918Who Loved Him Best? — Director
• 1917A Girl Like That — Director
• 1917Her Second Husband — Director
• 1917Outcast — Director, Producer
• 1917Please Help Emily — Director
• 1917The Beautiful Adventure — Director
• 1916A Coney Island Princess — Director
• 1916Because He Loved Her — Director
• 1916Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages — Extra (uncredited)
• 1916Rolling Stones — Director
• 1916The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary — Aunt Mary's Sweetheart
• 1916Wife and Auto Trouble — Director
• 1915A Bear Affair — Director
• 1915Ambrose's Fury — Director
• 1915Ambrose's Nasty Temper — Director
• 1915For Better - But Worse — The Police Chief's Daughter's Romeo, Director
• 1915Merely a Married Man — Director
• 1915Those Bitter Sweets — The Rival, Director
• 1914'Curses!' They Remarked — Director
• 1914Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker — Director
• 1914Gussle, the Golfer — Director
• 1914Liberty Belles — Director
• 1914The Plumber — Director
• 1913A Modest Hero — Director
• 1913A Woman in the Ultimate — Director
• 1913Almost a Wild Man — Director
• 1913Black and White — Director
• 1913Father's Chicken Dinner — Director
• 1913For the Son of the House — Director
• 1913Highbrow Love — Director
• 1913Pa Says — Director
• 1913Papa's Baby — Papa Binks, Director
• 1913Red Hicks Defies the World — Director
• 1913The Lady in Black — Director
• 1913The Power of the Camera — Second Convict, Director
• 1913The Suffragette Minstrels — Director
• 1913The Widow's Kids — The Traveling Man, Director
• 1913Those Little Flowers — Director
• 1913What Is the Use of Repining? — Director, Writer
• 1912A Dash Through the Clouds — Writer
• 1912A Voice from the Deep — On Roller Coaster, Story
• 1912For His Son — Dopokoke Factory Employee (uncredited)
• 1912Getting Rid of Trouble — Director
• 1912Helen's Marriage — Friend
• 1912Help! Help! — Office Worker
• 1912Hot Stuff — Cigar Drummer
• 1912Mr. Grouch at the Seashore — Director
• 1912The Brave Hunter — The Brave Hunter's Rival
• 1912The Engagement Ring — Redmond
• 1912The Fatal Chocolate — The City Beau
• 1912The Fickle Spaniard — Director
• 1912The Furs — The Husband
• 1912The Massacre — In Wagon Train
• 1912The Mender of Nets — The Rival's Brother
• 1912The Speed Demon — Racing Official, Story
• 1912The Sunbeam — The Bachelor
• 1912The Tragedy of a Dress Suit — Dick
• 1912When the Fire-Bells Rang — An Actor
• 1912Won by a Fish — The Woman's Father
• 1911A Knight of the Road — The Hobo, Writer
• 1911A Victim of Circumstance — The Husband
• 1911Bobby the Coward — Writer
• 1911Dave's Love Affair
• 1911Enoch Arden: Part II — Rescuer
• 1911Fighting Blood — A Soldier
• 1911His Trust — Col. Frazier
• 1911His Trust Fulfilled
• 1911Love in the Hills — Writer
• 1911Teaching Dad to Like Her — Harry's Father
• 1911The Adventures of Billy — Rich Man
• 1911The Baron — The Baron / A Waiter
• 1911The Blind Princess and the Poet — Lord Gold
• 1911The Broken Cross — The Manicurist's Friend
• 1911The Ghost — A Crook
• 1911The Last Drop of Water — Undetermined Role
• 1911The Lonedale Operator — A Tramp
• 1911The Long Road — Wedding Guest
• 1911The Making of a Man — Leading Man
• 1911The New Dress
• 1911The Primal Call — The Creditor
• 1911The Two Paths — Worker
• 1911When a Man Loves — Mr. Bach
• 1910A Child of the Ghetto — The Proprietor
• 1910A Child's Impulse — At First Party / At Second Party
• 1910A Gold Necklace — In Cafe
• 1910A Plain Song — The Manager
• 1910Faithful — Bystander
• 1910Gold Is Not All — Tom Darrell
• 1910In the Border States — Union Officer
• 1910Muggsy Becomes a Hero — A Tramp
• 1910Over Silent Paths — The Wanderer
• 1910Ramona — Man at Burial
• 1910Taming a Husband — Nobleman
• 1910That Chink at Golden Gulch — Gentleman Jim Dandy
• 1910The Converts — In Bar
• 1910The Face at the Window — The Butler
• 1910The Gold Seekers — The Claim Agent
• 1910The Lesson — Policeman, Writer
• 1910The Message of the Violin — The Baron
• 1910The Modern Prodigal — At Post Office, Writer
• 1910The Newlyweds — A Friend / On Train
• 1910The Oath and the Man — Aristocrat
• 1910The Song of the Wildwood Flute — A Suitor
• 1910The Tenderfoot's Triumph — A Cowboy
• 1910The Two Brothers — Manuel
• 1910The Unchanging Sea — The Rescuer
• 1910The Usurer — First Mover
• 1910Unexpected Help
• 1910Wilful Peggy
• 1909Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
• 1909The Broken Locket
• 1909The Salvation Army Lass
• 1908Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court