| Tom Terriss began his career as an impersonator of Dickens' characters on
the English stage. He came to America with his company and toured the United
States and Canada. A film company screened his Dickens' repertoire. Mr.
Terriss then answered the call of the movies, began to direct for Vitagraph
and became widely known as the director of big special productions. His
two latest are "Trumpet Island," from the well-known novel by
Gouverneur Morris, and W. H. Hornung's "Dead Men Tell No Tales."
Before he chose the stage as a career he practically circled the globe in
various occupations, including sheep raising in Australia, a sailor before
the mast, and working in the silver mines of Colorado and throughout the
whole of Africa. Mr. Terriss was born in 1882. |