Robert North was an American vaudeville performer who became a success as a stand-up comedian.
15 Facts About Robert North
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Robert North joined a vaudeville company at the age of twelve as a boy balcony singer.
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In January 1909 Robert North performed as a "Hebrew impersonator" at the Colonial Theatre in New York.
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Robert North would continue to perform this act between other roles.
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The 1910 Ziegfeld Follies played in over twenty theaters in major cities around the country, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City and San Francisco, where Robert North was the local favorite.
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Robert North married Stella Maury, another vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies trouper.
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In 1913 Robert North played at the Winter Garden Theatre in the Lew Fields' revue The Pleasure Seekers.
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In 1915 Robert North was among the cast of Lew Fields' musical review Hands Up, as were Fanny Brice and her brother Lew Brice.
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In 1915 Robert North started to produce Olga Petrova's silent films.
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Robert North worked as studio manager with George Irving as director in making Petrova's movies.
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In January 1917 Robert North's Popular Plays and Players, part of the Metro Picture Corporation, was filming in a rented building on West 35th Street, Manhattan, when there was an explosion in the film cutting room.
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Later Robert North moved to California and produced films for United Artists, and then for First National and Columbia.
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Robert North produced Wedding Rings, a drama directed by William Beaudine that was released on December 29,1929.
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Robert North was an active producer throughout the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s.
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Robert North produced the crime drama Penitentiary, directed by John Brahm, starring Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker and Robert Barrat.