Maurice Costello
Acting • Born 1877-02-20 – Died 1950-10-29
Biography
From Wikipedia Maurice George Costello (February 22, 1877 – October 29, 1950) was an American prominent vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s, who later played a principal role in early American films, as both a leading man, supporting player and a director. Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants Ellen and Thomas Costello. He appeared in his first motion picture in 1905, in which he had the honour of appearing in the first serious film to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes in the movie Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in which Costello played the title role. He continued to work for Vitagraph, being a member of the first motion picture stock company ever formed, playing opposite Florence Turner. Among some of his best known pictures are A Tale of Two Cities, The Man Who Couldn't Beat God and For the Honor of the Family. After an absence of some years he returned to the screen. He was married to actress Mae Costello (née Altschuk). His descendants include two daughters, actresses Dolores Costello and Helene Costello, a grandson John Drew Barrymore, and a great granddaughter Drew Barrymore. He was one of the world's first leading men in early American cinema, but like a lot of other silent screen stars, he found the transition to "talkies" extremely difficult, and his leading man status was over. However, Costello was a trouper, and continued to appear in movies, often in small roles and bit parts, right up until his death in 1950.
Filmography
137 credits
The Love of Chrysanthemum
Movie • 1910
The Story Without a Name
Movie • 1924
The Cripple
A Man Betrayed
Movie • 1941
Club Inferno Patron (uncredited)
Siren of the Sea
Movie • 1911
Fisherman
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Movie • 1927
Baxter Ryan
Man and Wife
Movie • 1923
Caleb Perkins
Alice in Movieland
Movie • 1940
Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
The Inherited Taint
Movie • 1911
Herbert Warning
The Sleep Walker
Movie • 1911
Dr. Allan Langham
Barriers Burned Away
Movie • 1911
John Martin - First Brother
How She Won Him
Movie • 1910
Arthur Lewis
For Her Brother's Sake
Movie • 1911
Albert Black - The Brother
A Quaker Mother
Movie • 1911
John Harmon - A Quaker Husband
A Princess of Bagdad
Movie • 1913
Seyn - the Cobbler
She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Movie • 1911
Herbert - Rose's Fiance
For Love and Glory
Movie • 1911
Lt. Osmond
Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy
Movie • 1908
The Last Alarm
Movie • 1926
The Captain of the Fire Brigade - Tom's Father
Conscience
Movie • 1912
Harold Winter
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1909
Lysander
Leah the Forsaken
Movie • 1908
Rudolf
Fellow Voyagers
Movie • 1913
Tom Blake
The Geranium
Movie • 1911
Daniel Briton
His Sister's Children
Movie • 1911
Harry Burton - the Children's Uncle
Some Steamer Scooping
Movie • 1914
Baron Lafitte
Etta of the Footlights
Movie • 1914
Lord Wentworth
Too Much Burglar
Movie • 1914
Tom Perry
The Evil Men Do
Movie • 1915
David Horton
For the Honor of the Family
Movie • 1912
Guy Ryder aka Guy Denton
Some Good in All
Movie • 1911
Bill - a Providential Thief
The Money Kings
Movie • 1912
Roy Brain
The Heart of Jim Brice
Movie • 1915
Jim Brice
Wanted... a Grandmother
Movie • 1912
Mr. Hale
Her Grandchild
Movie • 1912
Donald Grant - the Son
Bobby's Father
Movie • 1912
Dick Ramsay - Bobby's Father
The Hindoo Charm
Movie • 1913
Sir Edward Tilbury
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1911
Sydney Carton
A Vitagraph Romance
Movie • 1912
Maurice Costello
Roulette
Movie • 1924
Ben Corcoran
The First Violin
Movie • 1912
The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Movie • 1913
Lambert Chase
On the Pupil of His Eye
Movie • 1912
Lambert Chase, Detective
The Black Sheep
Movie • 1912
Harold Moreland - the Black Sheep's Brother
The Sacrifice
Movie • 1911
Nick Austin
The Two Battles
Movie • 1912
Gordon Frazier
Getting Up a Practice
Movie • 1913
Dr. Lyons
The Sale of a Heart
Movie • 1913
Charles Lindgard
Iron and Steel
Movie • 1914
John Smardon
Lady from Louisiana
Movie • 1941
Edwards
Water Lilies
Movie • 1911
Maurice
Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
Movie • 1910
The Wagon Show
Movie • 1928
Colonel Beldan
Little Nemo
Movie • 1911
Himself
Citizen Kane
Movie • 1941
Extra (uncredited)
A Man to Remember
Movie • 1938
Town Councilor (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties
Movie • 1939
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The Crimson Stain Mystery
Movie • 1916
Harold Stanley
It's a Wonderful World
Movie • 1939
Guest (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie • 1939
Diggs (uncredited)
The Picture Idol
Movie • 1912
Howard Hanson
Practically Yours
Movie • 1944
Senate Stenographer (uncredited)
Comet Over Broadway
Movie • 1938
Actor at Dress Rehearsal (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Director in Commissary
Dr. LaFleur's Theory
Movie • 1912
Dr. LaFleur
The Glass Key
Movie • 1942
Card Player (uncredited)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Movie • 1941
Ringsider at Fight (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
Movie • 1940
Extra (uncredited)
The New Stenographer
Movie • 1911
The boss
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Movie • 1939
Hart
The Spider's Web
Movie • 1912
Trevor Lawlor - A Young Attorney
Search for Beauty
Movie • 1934
Health Acres Guest (uncredited)
Edison, the Man
Movie • 1940
Broker
Half a Hero
Movie • 1912
Joe Godfrey
The Merchant of Venice
Movie • 1908
Fog Bound
Movie • 1923
Deputy Brown
The Mad Marriage
Movie • 1925
Walter Butler
The Way of the Cross, The Story of Ancient Rome
Movie • 1909
The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
Movie • 1912
Aunty's Romance
Movie • 1912
Stephen Fiske Jr.
The Loyalty of Sylvia
Movie • 1912
Dr. Dudley Lawrence
Delayed Proposals
Movie • 1913
Jack Hardy
As You Like It
Movie • 1912
Orlando
The Lonely Princess
Movie • 1913
Endicott, an American Millionaire
Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Movie • 1908
Eagle of the Night
Movie • 1928
Foreign Correspondent
Movie • 1940
Man (uncredited)
Tin Pan Alley
Movie • 1940
(uncredited)
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1940
Man Carrying Spear
Third Finger, Left Hand
Movie • 1940
Man at Railroad Station
Johnny Apollo
Movie • 1940
Extra (uncredited)
The Meeting of the Ways
Movie • 1912
Tom - an Honest Attorney
Lulu's Doctor
Movie • 1912
Doctor John Lewis
It All Came Out in the Wash
Movie • 1912
Barry Wall
Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Movie • 1912
'Enry Awkins
The Show Girl
Movie • 1911
Dr. Renfrew
When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet
Movie • 1912
Henry Ford
The Peacemaker
Movie • 1914
Himself - Cameo Appearance
The Crown Prince's Double
Movie • 1916
Prince Oscar / Barry Lawrence
Camille
Movie • 1927
Armand's father
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Movie • 1941
Rodeo Spectator with Martin Manning (uncredited)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Movie • 1939
Man in Audience (uncredited)
The Shamrock and the Rose
Movie • 1927
Father O'Brien
Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
Movie • 1908
Marc Antony
Du Barry Was a Lady
Movie • 1943
Passerby (uncredited)
Happily Buried
Movie • 1939
Board Member
The Bride of Lammermoor
Movie • 1909
Edgar Ravenswood
Auld Lang Syne
Movie • 1911
Tammas
Rose Leaves
Movie • 1910
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Movie • 1911
Jesus Christ
The Adventure of the Italian Model
Movie • 1912
Lambert Chase - the Detective
The Old Silver Watch
Movie • 1912
Frank as an Adult
The Glimpses of the Moon
Movie • 1923
Fred Gillow
Proving His Love; or, The Ruse of a Beautiful Woman
Movie • 1911
Lloyd Stanwood
What a Change of Clothes Did
Movie • 1913
John Mason
The Moonstone of Fez
Movie • 1914
Schuyler Van Norden
The Mysterious Lodger
Movie • 1914
Ralph Brent - the Mysterious Lodger
Salome; or, The Dance of the Seven Veils
Movie • 1908
King Herod
The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
Movie • 1908
The Climax
Movie • 1944
Audience Member (Uncredited)
The Ghost Comes Home
Movie • 1940
Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
His Mother
Movie • 1911
Donald Gray
Dead Man’s Honor
Movie • 1911
Hugh
Over the Garden Wall
Movie • 1910
The Changing of Silas Warner
Movie • 1911
Silas Warner's Son
A Fig Leaf for Eve
Movie • 1944
Nightclub Patron
None So Blind
Movie • 1923
Russell Mortimer
Love of Women
Movie • 1924
Mr. Redfield
Rags and the Girl
Movie • 1915
Tom Raine
Saul and David
Movie • 1909
David
The Tower of Jewels
Movie • 1919
Fraser Grimstead
Deadline at Eleven
Movie • 1920
Paul Klocke
The Cambric Mask
Movie • 1919
John Sark
Virtuous Liars
Movie • 1924
Josiah Wright
Week End Husbands
Movie • 1924
John Keane
The Captain's Captain
Movie • 1919
Lawford Tapp
The False Alarm
Movie • 1926
Jack's Chrysanthemum
Movie • 1913