Earl Schenck was born on May 13, 1889 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Salomé (1922), Kaiser's Finish (1918) and The Spirit of Lafayette (1919). He died in 1962 in Tahiti.
Graduate of Ohio State University, class of 1911; member Kappa Sigma Fraternity (Alpha Sigma chapter).
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After his film career ended, Schenck traveled the South Seas and wrote two books about Samoa, Hawaii, Tahiti, etc.: Come Unto These Yellow Sands and Lean with the Wind: a novel of the South Seas. In Come Unto These Yellow Sands he briefly mentions his movie career and the fact that a class on anthropology in college attracted him to the South Seas.
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In his book Come Unto These Yellow Sands (published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1940) Schenck mentions that he developed "kleig eyes" while working on one of his last films and so ended up in the hospital. It was one of the reasons that he gave up acting.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Abilene Town
1946
George Hazelhurst
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Norton (uncredited)
Music for Millions
1944
Minor Role (uncredited)
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
Old Man Passenger (uncredited)
The Seventh Cross
1944
Prisoner at Concentration Camp (uncredited)
Bathing Beauty
1944
Professor Nichols (uncredited)
Meet the People
1944
Shipyard Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Heavenly Body
1944
Forbes
A Guy Named Joe
1943
Col. Hendricks (uncredited)
Dollar Down
1925
Grant Elliot
Tides of Passion
1925
Jonas
The Hunted Woman
1925
John Aldous
Mademoiselle Midnight
1924
Emperor Maximilian (Prologue)
Yankee Madness
1924
Rodolfo Emanon
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924
Col. Rathbone
The Song of Love
1923
Commissionnaire Desmard
Ashes of Vengeance
1923
Blais
Salomé
1922
Narraboth, Captain of the Guard
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern
1922
Harlan Carr
Lucky Carson
1921
Rudolph Kluck
No Woman Knows
1921
Clarence Hyle
Beyond
1921
Alec Langley
Buried Treasure
1921
Joeffrey Vandermuellen
Good Women
1921
John Wilmot
The Harvest Moon
1920
Professor Fullerton
The Blue Pearl
1920
Penrose Trent
The Sacred Flame
1920
Lionel Brooks
The Trap
1919
Steve Fallon - the Brother
A Stitch in Time
1919
Dick Moreland
The Spirit of Lafayette
1919
Marquis de Lafayette
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns