Frank Mayo
French postcard in the Les Vedettes de Cinéma Series, by A.N., Paris, no. 11. Photo: Universal Film Company. Perhaps this card is for The Shark Master (Fred Leroy Granville, 1921) which evolves in the South Seas.
Frank Mayo (1889–1963) was an American actor, who appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949.
Born in New York, Frank Mayo was the grandson of 19th-century theater actor Frank M. Mayo and made his theater debut at age 6 in his grandfather's play Davy Crockett. Mayo was first credited in film in the 1911 short film The Thumb Print (1911), by the Vitagraph Studios, along with Earle Williams, Maurice Costello and Florence Turner. He later acted in The Lure of the Windigo (Selig, 1914) and acted at the Balboa Amusement Company in such films as The Love Liar (1915), The Rim of the Desert (1915), The Adventures of a Madcap (1915) and in the series The Red Circle (1915), alongside Ruth Roland. Meanwhile, Mayo directed a single film, The Lost Bracelet (Lubin, 1916).
He signed to World Films in 1918, and acted in several World Film films throughout the 1918 and 1919. For Universal Pictures Mayo starred between 1919 and 1923 in some 25 features including The Girl in Number 29 (1920), The Red Lane (1920), Hitchin 'Posts (1920), The Shark Master (1921), and Out of the Silent North (1922). In 1923 he moved over to Goldwyn Pictures where he starred in e.g. Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes, Goldwyn 1923) and Wild Oranges (King Vidor, Goldwyn 1924), after which he acted for First National and a whole string of smaller companies, as in The Triflers (Louis Gasnier, Bud Schulberg productions 1924) and Then Came the Woman (David Hartford, David Hartford Productions 1926). After 1927 he had a big gap in film acting and started again in 1930 when the sound film had set in. However, his glory days as film star were over, and he had now to satisfy with supporting parts at most and more often he had uncredited parts. Until 1949 Mayo acted but almost only in uncredited parts,
Frank Mayo's first wife, Joyce Eleanor Mayo, told in 1920 that her husband had deserted his marriage in 1919 after “six years of marriage”, i.e. from 193 onward. Afterward, Frank married actress Dagmar Godowsky in Tijuana, Mexico in 1921. Frank married Dagmar four days after an emergency proceeding to divorce Joyce Eleanor Mayo, but California law did not allow new marriage until a final sentence was reached one year after the injunction was granted, which eventually characterized the case as bigamy. In March 1925, Dagmar Godowsky appointed Anna Luther as co-responsible in a lawsuit that initiated the divorce proceedings after alleging to have discovered Luther with her husband in Mayo's apartment. The marriage was annulled in August 1928, based on the fact that Mayo had another wife. In 1963 Mayo died in Laguna Beach, California of acute myocardial infarction, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
Sources, English and Portuguese Wikipedia, IMDB.
Frank Mayo
French postcard in the Les Vedettes de Cinéma Series, by A.N., Paris, no. 11. Photo: Universal Film Company. Perhaps this card is for The Shark Master (Fred Leroy Granville, 1921) which evolves in the South Seas.
Frank Mayo (1889–1963) was an American actor, who appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949.
Born in New York, Frank Mayo was the grandson of 19th-century theater actor Frank M. Mayo and made his theater debut at age 6 in his grandfather's play Davy Crockett. Mayo was first credited in film in the 1911 short film The Thumb Print (1911), by the Vitagraph Studios, along with Earle Williams, Maurice Costello and Florence Turner. He later acted in The Lure of the Windigo (Selig, 1914) and acted at the Balboa Amusement Company in such films as The Love Liar (1915), The Rim of the Desert (1915), The Adventures of a Madcap (1915) and in the series The Red Circle (1915), alongside Ruth Roland. Meanwhile, Mayo directed a single film, The Lost Bracelet (Lubin, 1916).
He signed to World Films in 1918, and acted in several World Film films throughout the 1918 and 1919. For Universal Pictures Mayo starred between 1919 and 1923 in some 25 features including The Girl in Number 29 (1920), The Red Lane (1920), Hitchin 'Posts (1920), The Shark Master (1921), and Out of the Silent North (1922). In 1923 he moved over to Goldwyn Pictures where he starred in e.g. Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes, Goldwyn 1923) and Wild Oranges (King Vidor, Goldwyn 1924), after which he acted for First National and a whole string of smaller companies, as in The Triflers (Louis Gasnier, Bud Schulberg productions 1924) and Then Came the Woman (David Hartford, David Hartford Productions 1926). After 1927 he had a big gap in film acting and started again in 1930 when the sound film had set in. However, his glory days as film star were over, and he had now to satisfy with supporting parts at most and more often he had uncredited parts. Until 1949 Mayo acted but almost only in uncredited parts,
Frank Mayo's first wife, Joyce Eleanor Mayo, told in 1920 that her husband had deserted his marriage in 1919 after “six years of marriage”, i.e. from 193 onward. Afterward, Frank married actress Dagmar Godowsky in Tijuana, Mexico in 1921. Frank married Dagmar four days after an emergency proceeding to divorce Joyce Eleanor Mayo, but California law did not allow new marriage until a final sentence was reached one year after the injunction was granted, which eventually characterized the case as bigamy. In March 1925, Dagmar Godowsky appointed Anna Luther as co-responsible in a lawsuit that initiated the divorce proceedings after alleging to have discovered Luther with her husband in Mayo's apartment. The marriage was annulled in August 1928, based on the fact that Mayo had another wife. In 1963 Mayo died in Laguna Beach, California of acute myocardial infarction, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
Sources, English and Portuguese Wikipedia, IMDB.