Riley Chamberlin (November 7, 1854 – January 24, 1917) was an American

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, 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) ...

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), l ...

. Born in

Byron, Michigan Byron is a village in Shiawassee County, Michigan, Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 581 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The village is located within Burns Township, Michigan, Burns Township. Hi ...

, he was a graduate of

Grand Rapids High School Grand Rapids High School is a four-year public high school located in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States, on 800 Conifer Drive. GRHS offers a wide range of extracurricular activities, and has one of the few competitive field show marching ba ...

in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended Clinet College, Cornell University, and the Gardiner Academy of Music in Chicago. In 1910, billed as Riley Chamberlain, he performed in ''Lulu's Husbands'' on Broadway. In 1912, he began acting in films with the

Thanhouser Company The Thanhouser Company (later the Thanhouser Film Corporation) was one of the first motion picture studios, founded in 1909 by Edwin Thanhouser, his wife Gertrude and his brother-in-law Lloyd Lonergan. It operated in New York City until 1920 ...

at the age of 57, and starred in over 100 films until his death five years later at the age of 62.

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* 1854 births 1917 deaths American male silent film actors Male actors from Grand Rapids, Michigan Male actors from New Rochelle, New York 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1850s-stub