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in Tyner, Indiana (his 1946 résumé amended this to South Bend, Indiana). His mother was character actress Lydia Knott. A graduate of Drake College, he worked as a newspaper reporter and short-story writer, then as an actor in vaudeville and stock theater. During World War I he began working in motion pictures with the Mutual company. He began his career

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