Alva D. Blake

Alva D. Blake was born on Mar 31, 1887 in USA. Alva D. Blake's big-screen debut came with The Children in the House directed by Chester M. Franklin in 1916, strarring Gaffey. Alva D. Blake is known for A Dog's Life directed by Charles Chaplin, Charles Chaplin stars as Tramp and Dave Anderson as Bartender. The upcoming new movie Alva D. Blake plays is A Dog's Life which will be released on Apr 14, 1918.

According to Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton, USN (Ret.), in his book, "And I was there" Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets (Pages 106-108), Al D. Blake was "also known as Keeno, King of the Robots, from the world record he had set by standing motionless fora an hour and twenty-seven minutes. He was a sometime vaudeville performer whose robot act got him occasional jobs at fairs and store openings." Layton goes on to describe how Blake was instrumental in helping to expose Lieutenant commander Itaru Tachibana for espionage and spying while in the U.S. posing as a 'language student' prior to the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.