Charles Sutton (1856 – July 20, 1935) was an American actor of the

silent era A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. He appeared in more than one hundred films between 1911 and 1923. In addition to his work on film, Sutton acted on stage, including working with the Pasadena Players at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. He left there to go to New York, where he worked in plays, including ''The Three Musketeers''. In his later years, Sutton lived in

Englewood, New Jersey Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of Engle ...

, in the Actors Fund Home. On July 20, 1935, he died in Englewood Hospital, aged 79.

Selected filmography

* '' The Lighthouse by the Sea'' (1911) * '' The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1912) * '' Hulda of Holland'' (1913) * '' The Old Monk's Tale'' (1913) * '' The Girl of the Gypsy Camp'' (1915) * '' Gladiola'' (1915) * '' When Love Is King'' (1916) * '' The Heart of the Hills'' (1916) * '' The Rainbow Princess'' (1916) * ''

The Law of the North ''The Law of the North'' is a 1918 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Irvin Willat, and written by Ella Stuart Carson, John Lynch, and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Charles Ray (actor), Charles Ray, Doris May, Robert McKim (act ...

'' (1917) * '' Pardners'' (1917) * '' The Royal Pauper'' (1917) * '' The Eternal Mother'' (1917) * '' The Tell-Tale Step'' (1917) * '' Her Boy'' (1918) * '' The Lie'' (1918) * ''

Flower of the Dusk ''Flower of the Dusk'' is a surviving 1918 silent film directed by John H. Collins and starring his wife Viola Dana. It was produced by Maxwell Karger and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film is based on the 1908 novel by Myrtle Reed. A pr ...

'' (1918) * '' A Pair of Cupids'' (1918) * '' Home Wanted'' (1919) * ''

A Virgin Paradise ''A Virgin Paradise'' is a lost 1921 American silent adventure film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring serial queen Pearl White, for who it had been written by her friend Hiram Percy Maxim. It was directed by veteran d ...

'' (1921) * ''

Beyond Price ''Beyond Price'' is a 1921 American silent film, silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Pearl White, Vernon Steele and Ottola Nesmith.Munden p.54 Plot Cast * Pearl White as Sally Marrio * Vernon Steele as Philip Marrio * ...

'' (1921) * '' As a Man Lives'' (1923)

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* 1856 births 1935 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1850s-stub