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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.
Filmography
all 236
Movies 236
Director 54
Writer 7
Producer 2
Once More, My Darling (1949)
Let's Cogitate (1948)
A Really Important Person (1947)
Undercurrent (1946)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Main Street After Dark (1945)
The Great Morgan (1945)
The Missing Juror (1944)
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Arizona Terrors (1942)
Young People (1940)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Millionaires in Prison (1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Little Orvie (1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
The Chump Takes a Bump (1939)
Love Affair (1939)
Men with Wings (1938)
Rebellious Daughters (1938)
Goodbye Broadway (1938)
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Wells Fargo (1937)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Artists & Models (1937)
The Grand Bounce (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Bars and Stripes (1937)
We Who Are About to Die (1937)
The Texas Rangers (1936)
Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
Thunder in the Night (1935)
Little Big Shot (1935)
Slightly Static (1935)
Diamond Jim (1935)
Hot Tip (1935)
The Mystery Man (1935)
It's a Gift (1934)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
It's the Cats (1934)
Men in Black (1934)
Something Simple (1934)
The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Lone Cowboy (1933)
Too Much Harmony (1933)
On Your Guard (1933)
Goldie Gets Along (1933)
Mr. Bride (1932)
Choo-Choo! (1932)
In Walked Charley (1932)
Free Eats (1932)
The Champ (1931)
Skip the Maloo! (1931)
Newly Rich (1931)
Haunted at Midnight (1931)
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)
Thundering Tenors (1931)
Helping Grandma (1931)
Up a Tree (1930)
Looser Than Loose (1930)
Bigger and Better (1930)
Night of Goblins (1930)
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
Fast Work (1930)
The Sins of the Children (1930)
Big Money (1930)
All Teed Up (1930)
Whispering Whoopee (1930)
Getting a Raise (1930)
Hit the Deck (1929)
Wrong Again (1929)
Off to Buffalo (1929)
Riley the Cop (1928)
Show People (1928)
The Power of the Press (1928)
The Patsy (1928)
The Rambling Ranger (1927)
Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
The Clinging Vine (1926)
Accused (1925)
The Bad Lands (1925)
Battling Brewster (1924)
Gambling Wives (1924)
Sure-Fire Flint (1922)
Dynamite Allen (1921)
The Dead Line (1920)
Three Green Eyes (1919)
Hit or Miss (1919)
Courage for Two (1919)
Love in a Hurry (1919)
Hitting the Trail (1918)
The Road to France (1918)
By Hook or Crook (1918)
The Golden Wall (1918)
My Wife (1918)
Who Loved Him Best? (1918)
The Impostor (1918)
Her Second Husband (1917)
Please Help Emily (1917)
Outcast (1917)
A Girl Like That (1917)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1916)
Because He Loved Her (1916)
Merely A Married Man (1915)
Those Bitter Sweets (1915)
For Better - But Worse (1915)
A Bear Affair (1915)
Ambrose's Fury (1915)
Gussle, the Golfer (1914)
The Plumber (1914)
Liberty Belles (1914)
The Lady in Black (1913)
A Modest Hero (1913)
Black and White (1913)
Papa's Baby (1913)
The Widow's Kids (1913)
Those Little Flowers (1913)
Pa Says (1913)
Almost a Wild Man (1913)
Highbrow Love (1913)
The Power of the Camera (1913)
The Massacre (1912)
The Speed Demon (1912)
Neighbors (1912)
Katchem Kate (1912)
Helen's Marriage (1912)
The Furs (1912)
The Fickle Spaniard (1912)
Won by a Fish (1912)
The Brave Hunter (1912)
Help! Help! (1912)
Oh, Those Eyes (1912)
A Voice from the Deep (1912)
Hot Stuff (1912)
A Spanish Dilemma (1912)
The Sunbeam (1912)
The Fatal Chocolate (1912)
The Mender of Nets (1912)
For His Son (1912)
Through Darkening Vales (1911)
A Victim of Circumstance (1911)
The Long Road (1911)
The Making of a Man (1911)
The Baron (1911)
The Villain Foiled (1911)
The Last Drop of Water (1911)
The Ghost (1911)
The Primal Call (1911)
The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Teaching Dad to Like Her (1911)
Comrades (1911)
Conscience (1911)
His Trust (1911)
When a Man Loves (1911)
The Lesson (1910)
A Plain Song (1910)
The Song of the Wildwood Flute (1910)
Simple Charity (1910)
That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
A Gold Necklace (1910)
The Usurer (1910)
Unexpected Help (1910)
In the Border States (1910)
A Child of the Ghetto (1910)
The Purgation (1910)
Ramona (1910)
Over Silent Paths (1910)
The Face at the Window (1910)
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
The Twisted Trail (1910)
Faithful (1910)
The Gold Seekers (1910)
Thou Shalt Not (1910)
Taming a Husband (1910)
Gold Is Not All (1910)
The Englishman and the Girl (1910)
The Duke’s Plan (1910)
The Converts (1910)
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GenderMale
Birthday1883-07-05
Deathday1956-12-02 (73 years old)
Birth PlaceSt. Thomas, Canada
CitizenshipsCanada
Also Known AsDel Henderson, George Delbert "Dell" Henderson, George Delbert Henderson
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