| Courtenay Foote was born in a small town in Yorkshire, England and received
his education at Oxford, France and in Germany. While on the stage he played
with Charles Frohman, Sir Herbert Tree and William A. Brady. His first screen
experience was its it small part with D. W. Griffith, and later he played
with Vitagraph in ''Horatio Sparkins," ''Father and Son" and many
others. He is five feet eleven inches high, has brown hair and blue eyes
and has perhaps the, queerest hobby of all screen stars, he keeps a menagerie,
consisting of a dog, rat, pheasant, a baby monkey and a snake. These he
guards jealously, and spends his spare moments playing with them. |