George Periolat

George Periolat (February 5, 1874 – February 20, 1940) was an American actor.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, George Periolat began his career as a Broadway actor. Making his film debut with the Essanay Studios in Chicago, he moved to Hollywood in 1911 and starred in over 170 films throughout his career. He was a very versatile actor, often playing multiple roles in a single production, as when he played two leading characters, the count and the crook, in the 1916 production of The Counterfeit Earl. The story of Norma Desmond, though fictitious, is not far removed from the plight of many silent film stars, and the advent of the sound film brought about a swift end to Periolat's career. He made his last appearance in 1932's What Price Hollywood?. On February 20, 1940, he committed suicide by ingesting arsenic in his Hollywood mansion.

George Periolot or Periolat ca.1912

Outside his acting career, George Periolat was an amateur photographer, and a grandson of Napoleon Periolat.

Filmography

1930s

• What Price Hollywood? (1932) (uncredited) .... Undetermined Role
• Cracked Nuts (1931) (uncredited) .... Royal Advisor

1920s

• One Splendid Hour (1929) .... Senator Walsh
• The Fatal Warning (1929) .... William Rogers
• When Dreams Come True (1929) .... Robert Swayne
• Night Watch (1928) .... Fargasson
• Black Butterflies (1928) .... Hatch
• The Secret Hour (1928) .... Doctor
• Alias the Deacon (1928)
• Fangs of Destiny (1927) .... Colonel Shelby
• Through Thick and Thin (1927) .... James Morris
• Speedy Smith (1927) .... Charles C. Smith
• The Prairie King (1927) .... Ramon Fernandez
• The Mile-a-Minute Man (1926) .... C.O. 'Old Ironsides' Rockett
• Butterflies in the Rain (1926)
• Atta Boy (1926)
• The Nutcracker (1926) .... Señor Gómez
• The Phantom Express (1925) .... John Lane
• Fighting Youth (1925) .... Judge Manley
• Any Woman (1925) .... Robert Cartwright
• The Girl on the Stairs (1925) .... Dr. Bourget
• The Red Lily (1924) .... Papa Bouchard
• Lovers' Lane (1924) .... Dr. Stone
• The Yankee Consul (1924) .... Don Rafael Desschado
• Slave of Desire (1923) .... The Duke
• Rosita (1923) .... Rosita's father
• Barefoot Boy (1923) .... Si Parker
• The Tiger's Claw (1923) .... Henry Frazer Halehurst
• The Young Rajah (1922) .... General Gadi
• Blood and Sand (1922) .... Marquis of Guevera
• Dust Flower (1922) .... Ott
• Gay and Devilish (1922) .... Nethercote
• Shattered Idols (1922) .... The High Priest
• A Parisian Scandal (1921) .... Count Louis Oudoff
• Her Face Value (1921) .... James R. Greenwood
• Wealth (1921) .... Irving Seaton
• They Shall Pay (1921) .... Amos Colby
• Who Am I? (1921) .... John Collins
• The Kiss (1921) .... Don Luis Baldarama
• Two Weeks with Pay (1921) .... Ginsberg
• The Mark of Zorro (1920) .... Gov. Alvarado
• Life's Twist (1920) .... Mr. Boyd Chester
• Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1920) .... Fred Leslie
• Nurse Marjorie (1920) .... Andrew Danbury
• The Dangerous Talent (1920) .... Peyton Dodge
• Judy of Rogue's Harbor (1920) .... Peter Kingsland
• Tangled Skeins (1916) .... Carl Curtis

1910s

• Eve in Exile (1919) .... Jim Ricardo
• Beckoning Roads (1919) .... John Graysoon
• The Hellion (1919) .... Signor Enrico
• The Tiger Lily (1919) .... Luigi
• A Sporting Chance (1919/I) .... Edward Craig
• Trixie from Broadway (1919) .... Broadway Benham
• The Intrusion of Isabel (1919) .... Henry Whitney
• Put Up Your Hands! (1919) .... Peter Barton
• The Amazing Impostor (1919) .... Henry Hope
• Wives and Other Wives (1918) .... Judge Corcoran
• The Eyes of Julia Deep (1918) .... Timothy Black
• The Ghost of Rosy Taylor (1918) .... Charles Eldridge/Joseph Sayles
• Social Briars (1918) .... Peter Andrews
• Beauty and the Rogue (1918) .... Thomas Lee
• Rosemary Climbs the Heights (1918) .... Godfrey Van Voort
• The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917) .... Captain Ward
• A Game of Wits (1917) .... Cyrus Browning
• Southern Pride (1917) .... James Morgan
• Sands of Sacrifice (1917) .... Enoch Foyle
• Melissa of the Hills (1917) .... Cyrus Kimball
• Periwinkle (1917) .... Ephraiam Rawlins
• Her Country's Call (1917) .... Jim Slocum
• Annie-for-Spite (1917) .... Andrew Walters
• Environment (1917) .... David Holcombe
• The Old Sheriff (1917)
• Nature's Calling (1917)
• Double Revenge (1917)
• The Gilded Youth (1917) .... Undetermined Role
• The Valley of Decision (1916) .... Dr. Brainard
• And the Law Says (1916) .... Dr. Cartmell
• Philip Holden - Waster (1916) .... Miles Holden
• The Sable Blessing (1916) .... Crow
• The Atonement (1916/I)
• Enchantment (1916)
• The Little Troubadour (1916)
• Pastures Green (1916)
• The Dancer (1916)
• The Quicksands of Deceit (1916)
• Killed by Whom? (1916)
• Tangled Skeins (1916)
• The Gentle Conspiracy (1916)
• Jealousy's First Wife (1916)
• Four Months (1916)
• The Touch on the Key (1916)
• The Counterfeit Earl (1916)
• Realization (1916)
• The Wayfarers (1916)
• Ways of the World (1916)
• The Code of Honor (1916)
• The Silken Spider (1916)
• Life's Harmony (1916)
• The Smugglers of Santa Cruz (1916)
• Viviana (1916)
• Curly (1915)
• The Road to Paradise (1915) .... Prince Vladislav
• When a Queen Loved O'Rourke (1915)
• The Palace of Dust (1915)
• The Diamond from the Sky (1915) .... Luke Lovell
• The Stool Pigeon (1915) .... Oswald Trumble
• The Guardian of the Flock (1915)
• The Storm (1915)
• Smouldering Fires (1915)
• A Bogus Bandit (1915)
• The King and the Man (1914)
• The Inn of the Winged Gods (1914)
• The Empire of Illusion (1914)
• His Heart His Hand and His Sword (1914)
• His Father's Son (1914/I)
• Disillusioned (1914)
• The Proof of a Man (1914)
• A Kentucky Gentleman (1914)
• Little Meg and I (1914)
• The Man from Nowhere (1914)
• Weight and Measures (1914)
• There Is a Destiny (1914)
• Man and His Brother (1914)
• Out of the Valley (1914)
• Value Received (1914)
• At Mexico's Mercy (1914)
• A Twentieth Century Pirate (1914)
• The Sandhill Lovers (1914) .... Hardy, the Rustler
• The Sheep Herder (1914)
• The Call Back (1914)
• Toilers of the Sea (1914)
• As Fate Willed (1914)
• Samson (1914) .... Manoah, Samson's father
• The Lion (1914)
• The Bolted Door (1914)
• Sealed Orders (1914)
• The Acid Test (1914/I)
• Hearts and Flowers (1914/III)
• The Man Between (1914)
• The Man Who Lied (1914)
• The Magic Skin (1914)
• The Field Foreman (1913)
• Rory o' the Bogs (1913)
• Incognito (1913)
• The Dread Inheritance (1913) .... The Father
• The Barrier of Bars (1913)
• The Tale of the Ticker (1913)
• The Passerby (1913)
• The Girl and the Greaser (1913)
• In the Days of Trajan (1913)
• The Restless Spirit (1913)
• The Step Brothers (1913)
• A Pitfall of the Installment Plan (1913)
• The Badge of Honor (1913)
• Travellers of the Road (1913)
• Calamity Anne, Heroine (1913)
• For the Crown (1913)
• For the Flag (1913)
• The Scapegoat (1913)
• Truth in the Wilderness (1913)
• Quicksands (1913)
• A Husband's Mistake (1913)
• Her Big Story (1913)
• The Wishing Seat (1913)
• Calamity Anne's Parcel Post (1913)
• Oil on Troubled Waters (1913)
• The Road to Ruin (1913/II)
• Calamity Anne's Beauty (1913)
• Cupid Never Ages (1913)
• Nell of the Pampas (1912)
• Her Own Country (1912)
• Where There's a Heart (1912) .... The Prospector
• The Evil Inheritance (1912) .... The Father
• The Thread of Life (1912)
• The Maid and the Man (1912)
• From the Four Hundred to the Herd (1912)
• The Angel of Paradise Ranch (1911)
• The Water War (1911)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Periolat.

• George Periolat at the Internet Movie Database