Dell Henderson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Delbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film. Born in the Southwestern Ontario city of St. Thomas, Dell Henderson started his acting career on the stage, but appeared in his first movie Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court already in 1908. Henderson was a frequent associate of film pioneer D.W. Griffith since 1909 and appeared in numerous of his early shorts in Hollywood. He also acted on a less prolific basis in the movies of producer Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studios. In addition to acting, Henderson also directed nearly 200 silent films between 1911 and 1928. Most of those films are forgotten or lost, but he also directed movies with silent stars like Harry Carey and Roscoe Arbuckle. Henderson also worked as a writer on numerous screenplays. After retiring from directing in 1927, Henderson turned to acting full-time and played important supporting roles in King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) and as General Marmaduke Pepper in Show People (1928). The advent of sound film damaged his acting career, and he often had to play smaller roles. In the 1930s, the comedic character actor appeared on several occasions as a comic foil for such comedians as The Three Stooges, W. C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy. He often played somewhat pompous figures like judges, businessmen, detectives or mayors. Modern audiences will remember Henderson as annoyed hospital president Dr. Graves in The Three Stooges film Men in Black and the put-upon chaperone in the Little Rascals film Choo-Choo!. He also appeared as a Night Court Judge in Laurel and Hardy's Our Relations (1936) and as a friendly Car salesman in Leo McCarey's drama Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). Henderson ended his film career after numerous small roles in 1950. Henderson died of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 79. He was married with actress Florence Lee until his death, they made several silent films together.
170 acting credits · 66 directing credits
Acting · 170
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
The Awful Truth
1937
Love Affair
1939
Undercurrent
1946
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
The Major and the Minor
1942
Show People
1928
The Crowd
1928
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
Wells Fargo
1937
Annie Get Your Gun
1950
Thunder in the Night
1935
The Two Brothers
1910
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
The Texas Rangers
1936
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
The Champ
1931
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
Young People
1940
Frontier Marshal
1939
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935
We Who Are About to Die
1937
The Daring Young Man
1935
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
Lone Cowboy
1933
Wrong Again
1929
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
Men with Wings
1938
Bottoms Up
1934
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947
The Sunbeam
1912
Diamond Jim
1935
Newly Rich
1931
Ramona
1910
You're Telling Me!
1934
Artists & Models
1937
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
The Missing Juror
1944
Little Big Shot
1935
Helen's Marriage
1912
The Mystery Man
1935
Main Street After Dark
1945
The Long Road
1911
The Primal Call
1911
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934
The Massacre
1912
His Trust
1911
Something Simple
1934
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944
Here Comes Cookie
1935
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930
The Girl of the Golden West
1938
The Big Brain
1933
Men in Black
1934
Riley the Cop
1928
Millionaires in Prison
1940
The Patsy
1928
3 Kids and a Queen
1935
It's a Gift
1934
The Newlyweds
1910
Once More, My Darling
1949
Too Much Harmony
1933
Skip the Maloo!
1931
The Grand Bounce
1937
The Power of the Press
1928
Slightly Static
1935
Haunted at Midnight
1931
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
Arizona Terrors
1942
The Lonedale Operator
1911
Getting Gertie's Garter
1927
Thundering Tenors
1931
Free Eats
1932
Hit the Deck
1929
Mr. Bride
1932
Fast Work
1930
The Usurer
1910
The Salvation Army Lass
1909
A Child's Impulse
1910
A Voice from the Deep
1912
Whispering Whoopee
1930
The Speed Demon
1912
Hot Tip
1935
His Trust Fulfilled
1911
The Oath and the Man
1910
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1933
Helping Grandma
1931
The Unchanging Sea
1910
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
1910
A Child of the Ghetto
1910
Won by a Fish
1912
A Gold Necklace
1910
Getting a Raise
1930
The Converts
1910
The Clinging Vine
1926
In the Border States
1910
The Making of a Man
1911
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
1910
Rebellious Daughters
1938
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911
The Great Morgan
1945
Choo-Choo!
1932
The Broken Locket
1909
Wilful Peggy
1910
Goldie Gets Along
1933
The New Dress
1911
The Sins of the Children
1930
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
Fighting Blood
1911
Little Orvie
1940
The Gold Seekers
1910
For His Son
1912
A Victim of Circumstance
1911
That Chink at Golden Gulch
1910
Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
Rainbow Over Broadway
1933
The Modern Prodigal
1910
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909
The Broken Cross
1911
The Chump Takes a Bump
1939
A Knight of the Road
1911
The Last Drop of Water
1911
Looser Than Loose
1930
Dave's Love Affair
1911
Hitch Hike Lady
1935
The Lesson
1910
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
1912
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
1931
Over Silent Paths
1910
Unexpected Help
1910
The Adventures of Billy
1911
The Brave Hunter
1912
Faithful
1910
When the Fire-Bells Rang
1912
Night of Goblins
1930
On Your Guard
1933
The Engagement Ring
1912
The Furs
1912
Hot Stuff
1912
When a Man Loves
1911
The Ghost
1911
Teaching Dad to Like Her
1911
The Widow's Kids
1913
Bigger and Better
1930
The Mender of Nets
1912
The Fatal Chocolate
1912
Chiselers of Hollywood
1930
The Face at the Window
1910
A Plain Song
1910
In Walked Charley
1932
The Baron
1911
All Teed Up
1930
Gold Is Not All
1910
The Message of the Violin
1910
Big Money
1930
Those Bitter Sweets
1915
The Tenderfoot's Triumph
1910
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
1916
Taming a Husband
1910
Off to Buffalo
1929
The Two Paths
1911
Help! Help!
1912
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court
1908
The Power of the Camera
1913
Up a Tree
1930
Papa's Baby
1913
Is Everybody Happy?
1928
For Better - But Worse
1915
Directing · 66
Wife and Auto Trouble
1916
Love in a Hurry
1919
Black and White
1913
Accused
1925
'Curses!' They Remarked
1914
Three Green Eyes
1919
Red Hicks Defies the World
1913
Pa Says
1913
The Golden Wall
1918
Almost a Wild Man
1913
Sure-Fire Flint
1922
Pursued
1925
Ambrose's Nasty Temper
1915
A Modest Hero
1913
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
1912
Dynamite Allen
1921
For the Son of the House
1913
Her Second Husband
1917
A Bear Affair
1915
Getting Rid of Trouble
1912
The Dead Line
1920
A Woman in the Ultimate
1913
Gambling Wives
1924
The Beloved Blackmailer
1918
The Bad Lands
1925
Who Loved Him Best?
1918
The Plumber
1914
Those Little Flowers
1913
A Girl Like That
1917
The Girl from Porcupine
1921
Gussle, the Golfer
1914
The Beautiful Adventure
1917
By Hook or Crook
1918
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923
Liberty Belles
1914
Highbrow Love
1913
My Wife
1918
Because He Loved Her
1916
Please Help Emily
1917
Hitting the Trail
1918
The Widow's Kids
1913
The Impostor
1918
The Road to France
1918
A Coney Island Princess
1916
Ambrose's Fury
1915
Battling Brewster
1924
Outcast
1917
The Suffragette Minstrels
1913
The Lady in Black
1913
Those Bitter Sweets
1915
Father's Chicken Dinner
1913
Rolling Stones
1916
The Fickle Spaniard
1912
The Rambling Ranger
1927
Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker
1914
What Is the Use of Repining?
1913
Dead or Alive
1921
Hit or Miss
1919
The Broken Silence
1922
The Power of the Camera
1913
One Law for the Woman
1924
Papa's Baby
1913
The Shark
1920
Courage for Two
1919
Merely A Married Man
1915
For Better - But Worse
1915