Frank Currier

Frank Currier

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For the U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, see Frank Dunklee Currier.

Frank Currier
Currier in 1921
Born	(1857-09-04)September 4, 1857 Norwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	April 22, 1928(1928-04-22) (aged 70) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film and stage actor, director
Years active	1912-1928
Spouse(s)	Ada Dow (?-1926) (her death)

Bryant Washburn, Guy Oliver, and Frank Currier in It Pays to Advertise (1919).

Frank Currier (September 4, 1857 – April 22, 1928) was an American film and stage actor and director of the silent era.

Career[edit]

Currier appeared in 133 films between 1912 and 1928. He also directed 19 films in 1916. He is memorable as the Roman Admiral who adopts Judah Ben-Hur (Ramon Novarro) as his son after Ben-Hur saves his life during battle at sea in the 1925 film Ben-Hur.

Similar to Theodore Roberts, Kate Lester, Ida Waterman, and William H. Crane, Currier had a long and successful stage career in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. His youth was spent honing his stagecraft. By the time he started appearing in silent films he was in his 50s and middle-aged. Currier, like Roberts, had a distinctive grandfatherly look as he aged and was respected and beloved by film audiences.

He was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1857 and died in Hollywood, California in 1928.

Selected filmography[edit]

• The Cross-Roads (1912)
• The Battle of Frenchman's Run (1915)
• Fifty-Fifty (1916)
• Panthea (1917)
• The End of the Tour (1917)
• His Father's Son (1917)
• God's Law and Man's (1917)
• Sowers and Reapers (1917)
• The Greatest Power (1917)
• The Brass Check (1918)
• The Winning of Beatrice (1918)
• To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918)
• A Successful Adventure (1918)
• His Bonded Wife (1918)
• It Pays to Advertise (1919)
• The Right of Way (1920)
• The Cheater (1920)
• Clothes (1920)
• The Pleasure Seekers (1920)
• The Rookie's Return (1920)
• The Trouble Shooter (1924)
• The Heart Buster (1924)
• The Red Lily (1924)
• The Family Secret (1924)
• Graustark (1925)
• The White Desert (1925)
• The Great Love (1925)
• Ben-Hur (1925)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• Tell It to the Marines (1926)
• La Bohème (1926)
• The Enemy (1927)
• The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
• Across to Singapore (1928)