Slim Summerville

Slim Summerville was born on Jul 10, 1892 in USA. Slim Summerville's big-screen debut came with Caught in the Rain directed by Charles Chaplin in 1914, strarring Cop (uncredited). Slim Summerville is known for All Quiet on the Western Front directed by Lewis Milestone, Louis Wolheim stars as Kat and Lew Ayres as Paul. The most recent award Slim Summerville achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Slim Summerville plays is The Hoodlum Saint which will be released on Apr 04, 1946.

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1892, rustic-looking George "Slim" Summerville possessed one of those malleable mugs that made you laugh even before he opened his mouth. Young Slim ran away from home as a youth and lived a rather wanderlust life until a chance meeting with Mack Sennett through his comedian friend Edgar Kennedy changed everything.Slim broke into silent films at age nineteen as one of Sennett's pie-hurling Keystone Kops and became part of the stock company of players. Making an unbilled appearance in Keystone's first feature film La Folle Aventure de Charlot et de Lolotte (1914), Summerville's gangly build and naive innocence, not to mention his potato-like nose, mournful mug, and slim, curling upper lip, helped set him apart -- so much so that Summerville eventually branched out into his own short vehicles.Much more comfortable in rumpled clothes and overalls than a suit and tie, he later learned the ropes of directing and in the 1920s helmed a string of short films for both Fox and Universal studios. He refocused on acting come the advent of sound and made a rather easy transition, standing out in a number of commercial films, both comedic and dramatic, including the mammoth war epic À l'Ouest rien de nouveau (1930), the landmark musical film La Féérie du jazz (1930), Hecht-MacArthur's classic Spéciale première (1931), the Shirley Temple vehicles Captain January (1936) and Mam'zelle vedette (1938), and John Ford's La route au tabac (1941). In addition, Slim scored in a series of short comedies opposite Zasu Pitts, and a slew of supports in Hoot Gibson westerns.Usually playing much older than he was, the sleepy-eyed, slow-drawling Summerville played his last role in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), before dying of a stroke on January 5, 1946, at the not-so-old age of 53. He left a strong enough legacy, however, to be remembered as one of the screen's more reliable comedians. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and son Elliot.