Roland Bottomley was born on the 23rd of September 1880 in Liverpool. He went to America around 1913 and settled in California. He first made movies for the Kalem Company during the 1910s such as 'The Green Cloak' (1915), a short film 'The Net Of Deceit' (1915), 'The Ventures of Marguerite (1915), 'The Grip of Evil (1917) and 'The Neglected Wife' (1917).
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| Roland Bottomley starred as Horace Kennedy |
In June 1917, Richard enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, joining the University of Toronto Officers' Training Company along with a number of other actors. At that time, he gave his date of birth as 9 September 1878 which is where some sources have him born in 1878 and others in 1879. By the 1920s he acted at Paramount, Fox, Universal and for Thomas H. Ince. His films during that time were 'The Devil' (1921), 'The Charming Deceiver' (1921), 'A Man's Home' (1921), 'Modern Marriage' (1923), 'Does It Pay?' (1923), 'The Dawn of a Tomorrow' (1924), and 'Enticement' (1925).
After his last film, 'Enticement' in 1925, in which he played Bevington, he returned to Broadway for the remainder of his career. Roland Bottomley died on the 5th of January, 1947 in New York City, New York, and was survived by a brother, Robert, a business manager of a theater in Scarborough, England.
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