Loyal Underwood (August 6, 1893 - September 30, 1966) was an American stock

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Biography

Born in 1893 in

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, Underwood's movie debut was in '' The Count'', a 1916 Chaplin

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Mutual Film Corporation Mutual Film Corporation was an early American film conglomerate that produced some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies. Founded in 1912, it was absorbed by Film Booking Offices of America, which evolved into RKO Pictures. Founding Mutual' ...

. Underwood is uncredited as he was for the four other Mutual shorts in which he appeared. In 1918, Chaplin started work for First National and Loyal Underwood was on hand. He was credited and appeared in all seven First National Shorts which Chaplin directed. Underwood was a short man. Next to the short Chaplin at , he appeared puny and weak. Hence, the comedy of a situation in which such a man is the antagonist; Chaplin's character routinely shrugged him off. Between 1921 and 1927, Underwood appeared in several other lesser known films. In the next twenty years, he was again appearing uncredited in films, such as '' Arizona Bad Man'', '' Let's Dance'' and '' The Paleface''. In 1928, Underwood worked as a writer and director at radio station KNX in Los Angeles. Underwood's final film was a credited role, albeit a small one, as a Street Musician in Chaplin's final American film ''

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'' in 1952. Underwood died in

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on September 30, 1966, in Southern California, and is buried in the Sheltering Hills section at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in

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. He was 73. Decades after his death, he lies in a still-unmarked curbside grave.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Underwood, Loyal 1893 births 1966 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) 20th-century American male actors