Carter DeHaven (birthname: Francis O'Callaghan b. October 5, 1886 in Chicago, Illinois - d. July 20, 1977 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a movie and stage actor, movie director and writer.
De Haven started his career on vaudeville and started acting in movies in 1915. A 1927 short, Character Studies, purports to display DeHaven's quick-change abilities, as he transforms himself in seconds into the spitting image of various major ...
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Carter DeHaven (birthname: Francis O'Callaghan b. October 5, 1886 in Chicago, Illinois - d. July 20, 1977 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a movie and stage actor, movie director and writer.
De Haven started his career on vaudeville and started acting in movies in 1915. A 1927 short, Character Studies, purports to display DeHaven's quick-change abilities, as he transforms himself in seconds into the spitting image of various major film stars of the era: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and 13-year old Jackie Coogan; this was the only film in which Keaton and Lloyd appeared together, and also marked Keaton's last film appearance with Arbuckle, his former partner.
DeHaven went on to work with Charlie Chaplin, as assistant director on Modern Times (1936) and assistant producer for The Great Dictator (1940).
He was the father of actress Gloria DeHaven, who made her first screen appearance in Modern Times. Both Carter and Gloria DeHaven...
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