{{Short description|American actor (1895–1947)}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Rankin | image = Arthur Rankin 1935.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Arthur Gardner Rankin Sr. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|8|30}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|3|23|1895|8|30}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1914–1941 (film) | spouse = Marian Mansfield | children = 2, including [[Arthur Rankin Jr.]] | mother = [[Phyllis Rankin]] | relatives = [[Harry Davenport (actor)|Harry Davenport]] (step-father)<br>[[Dorothy Davenport]] (step-sister) }} '''Arthur Gardner Rankin Sr.'''<ref>{{cite web | title=Arthur Rankin, 89, Dies; His Puppet Animation Was a Holiday Hallmark | website=The New York Times | date=February 5, 2014 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/business/arthur-rankin-jr-who-brought-rudolph-and-santa-to-tv-dies-at-89.html | access-date=November 20, 2021}}</ref> (August 30, 1895 – March 23, 1947) was an American [[film actor]].<ref>Munden p.476</ref>
==Personal life== Arthur Rankin was born in New York, the son of actress [[Phyllis Rankin]]. She later married actor [[Harry Davenport (actor)|Harry Davenport]], who adopted Arthur.<ref>{{cite book|title=Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines|volume=26|issue=1|page=130|author=Staff|year=1924|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlkTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+following+year+Harry+Davenport+married+Doris+Rankin%22|access-date=August 12, 2015}}</ref> He was the nephew of [[Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew]]. Rankin served in the [[United States Marine Corps]] during [[World War I]], and received a medical discharge in 1918. He then joined the British Army. During [[World War II]], Rankin rejoined the Marine Corps.<ref name=obit /> Rankin married Marian Mansfield,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Variety|date=February 11, 2014|page=71|title=Remembered: Arthur Rankin Jr.|id={{ProQuest|1502957246}}}}</ref> and they had two sons, one of them being animator [[Arthur Rankin Jr.]] He died on March 22, 1947, of a cerebral hemorrhage.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 24, 1947|page=25|title=Arthur Rankin, 50, Actor and Writer|id={{ProQuest|107989579}}}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== {{div col}} * ''[[Silas Marner (1916 film)|Silas Marner]]'' (1916) * ''[[Romance (1920 film)|Romance]]'' (1920) * ''[[The Truth About Husbands]]'' (1920) * ''[[The Great Adventure (1921 film)|The Great Adventure]]'' (1921) * ''[[The Lure of Jade]]'' (1921) * ''[[The Five Dollar Baby]]'' (1922) * ''[[To Have and to Hold (1922 film)|To Have and to Hold]]'' (1922) * ''[[Enter Madame (1922 film)|Enter Madame]]'' (1922) * ''[[The Call of the Canyon (film)|The Call of the Canyon]]'' (1923) * ''[[Discontented Husbands]]'' (1924) * ''[[Vanity's Price]]'' (1924) * ''[[Broken Laws]]'' (1924) * ''[[The Fearless Lover]]'' (1925) * ''[[Tearing Through]]'' (1925) * ''[[Speed (1925 film)|Speed]]'' (1925) * ''[[Sun-Up]]'' (1925) * ''[[Pursued (1925 film)|Pursued]]'' (1925) * ''[[The Love Gamble]]'' (1925) * ''[[The Sporting Lover]]'' (1926) * ''[[The Man in the Shadow]]'' (1926) * ''[[The Hidden Way]]'' (1926) * ''[[The Millionaire Policeman]]'' (1926) * ''[[Riding to Fame]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Woman Who Did Not Care]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Blood Ship]]'' (1927) * ''[[Slightly Used]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Adventurous Soul]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Wife's Relations]]'' (1928) * ''[[Domestic Troubles]]'' (1928) * ''[[Walking Back]]'' (1928) * ''[[Say It with Sables]]'' (1928) * ''[[Making the Varsity]]'' (1928) * ''[[Runaway Girls]]'' (1928) * ''[[Submarine (1928 film)|Submarine]]'' (1928) * ''[[Code of the Air]]'' (1928) * ''[[Ships of the Night]]'' (1928) * ''[[Companionate Marriage]]'' (1928) * ''[[Below the Deadline (1929 film)|Below the Deadline]]'' (1929) * ''[[The Fall of Eve]]'' (1929) * ''[[The Unwritten Law (1932 film)|The Unwritten Law]]'' (1932) * ''[[Trailing North]]'' (1933) * ''[[The Thrill Hunter (1933 film)|The Thrill Hunter]]'' (1933) * ''[[Men of the Night (1934 film)|Men of the Night]]'' (1934) * ''[[Unknown Woman (1935 film)|Unknown Woman]]'' (1935) * ''[[The Public Menace]]'' (1935) * ''[[Case of the Missing Man]]'' (1935) * ''[[Roaming Lady]]'' (1936) * ''[[The Cowboy Star]]'' (1936) * ''[[Two-Fisted Gentleman]]'' (1936) * ''[[Midnight Taxi (1937 film)|Midnight Taxi]]'' (1937) * ''[[Second Honeymoon (1937 film)|Second Honeymoon]]'' (1937) * ''[[Thanks for Everything (1938 film)|Thanks for Everything]]'' (1938) * ''[[Quick Millions (1939 film)|Quick Millions]]'' (1939) * ''[[Here I Am a Stranger]]'' (1939) {{div col end}}
==See also== *[[Arthur Rankin Jr.]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0710233}}
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