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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 209
Movies 209
Director 45
Writer 9
Once More, My Darling (1949)
Let's Cogitate (1948)
Undercurrent (1946)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Main Street After Dark (1945)
The Great Morgan (1945)
The Missing Juror (1944)
Du Barry was a Lady (1943)
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)
5th Ave Girl (1939)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
The Chump Takes a Bump (1939)
Love Affair (1939)
Men with Wings (1938)
Rebellious Daughters (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)
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)
Slightly Static (1935)
Little Big Shot (1935)
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Diamond Jim (1935)
Hot Tip (1935)
The Daring Young Man (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
The Mystery Man (1935)
It's a Gift (1934)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
Men in Black (1934)
Something Simple (1934)
Bottoms Up (1934)
You're Telling Me! (1934)
Lone Cowboy (1933)
Rainbow Over Broadway (1933)
Too Much Harmony (1933)
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles (1933)
On Your Guard (1933)
Goldie Gets Along (1933)
Mr. Bride (1932)
Choo-Choo! (1932)
In Walked Charley (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)
Chiselers of Hollywood (1930)
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)
Is Everybody Happy? (1928)
The Patsy (1928)
The Crowd (1928)
The Rambling Ranger (1927)
Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
The Clinging Vine (1926)
Accused (1925)
The Bad Lands (1925)
Battling Brewster (1924)
One Law for the Woman (1924)
Gambling Wives (1924)
Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers (1923)
Dynamite Allen (1921)
The Dead Line (1920)
Love in a Hurry (1919)
The Road to France (1918)
The Beloved Blackmailer (1918)
Who Loved Him Best? (1918)
Please Help Emily (1917)
A Girl Like That (1917)
A Coney Island Princess (1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1916)
Wife and Auto Trouble (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 Nasty Temper (1915)
Ambrose's Fury (1915)
Gussle, the Golfer (1914)
The Plumber (1914)
Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker (1914)
'Curses!' They Remarked (1914)
Liberty Belles (1914)
For the Son of the House (1913)
The Lady in Black (1913)
A Modest Hero (1913)
A Woman in the Ultimate (1913)
Black and White (1913)
The Suffragette Minstrels (1913)
Father's Chicken Dinner (1913)
Papa's Baby (1913)
The Widow's Kids (1913)
Those Little Flowers (1913)
Pa Says (1913)
Almost a Wild Man (1913)
Red Hicks Defies the World (1913)
Highbrow Love (1913)
The Power of the Camera (1913)
What Is the Use of Repining? (1913)
The Massacre (1912)
Getting Rid of Trouble (1912)
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore (1912)
Tragedy of the Dress Suit (1912)
What the Doctor Ordered (1912)
The Speed Demon (1912)
A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
Neighbors (1912)
Katchem Kate (1912)
Helen's Marriage (1912)
The Furs (1912)
When the Fire-Bells Rang (1912)
The Fickle Spaniard (1912)
Won by a Fish (1912)
The Brave Hunter (1912)
Help! Help! (1912)
Oh, Those Eyes (1912)
Hot Stuff (1912)
A Voice from the Deep (1912)
The Engagement Ring (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)
Love in the Hills (1911)
The Long Road (1911)
The Adventures of Billy (1911)
The Making of a Man (1911)
The Villain Foiled (1911)
The Baron (1911)
The Last Drop of Water (1911)
The Ghost (1911)
Bobby the Coward (1911)
The Primal Call (1911)
The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Teaching Dad to Like Her (1911)
Comrades (1911)
A Wreath of Orange Blossoms (1911)
His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
His Trust (1911)
When a Man Loves (1911)
The Lesson (1910)
A Plain Song (1910)
The Song of the Wildwood Flute (1910)
The Message of the Violin (1910)
That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
A Gold Necklace (1910)
Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910)
The Modern Prodigal (1910)
Wilful Peggy (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 Two Brothers (1910)
The Face at the Window (1910)
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
The Tenderfoot's Triumph (1910)
A Romance of the Western Hills (1910)
The Twisted Trail (1910)
Faithful (1910)
The Gold Seekers (1910)
Gold Is Not All (1910)
The Converts (1910)
Taming a Husband (1910)
The Broken Locket (1909)
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court (1908)
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Known ForActing
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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