{{Short description|American actor}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2024}} thumb| '''Chester Barnett''' (February 29, 1884 - September 22, 1947){{cn|date=August 2024}} was an actor in American silent films and a screenwriter.
thumb|1920 He starred with Pearl White in Crystal Film Company comedy shorts.
He appeared on a souvenir postcard.<ref name="digitalcommons:86">{{cite journal | url=https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/jonathan_silent_film/86/ | title=Actor Chester Barnett | journal=Jonathan Silent Film Collection | date=January 1914 }}</ref>
He died in Jefferson City, Missouri.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
Chapman University has a postcard of him.<ref name="digitalcommons:86" />
==Filmography== *''The Mind Cure'' (1912) *''Will Power'' (1913) *''Oh, Whiskers!'' as The Barber (1913) *''A Night in the Town'' (1913) *''How Men Propose'' (1913) *''Pearl as a Detective'' (1913) *''An Innocent Bridegroom'' (1913) *''How Men Propose'' (1913)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://prod.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/361470%7C31097/Chester-Barnett|title=Chester Barnett|website=Turner Classic Movies}}{{dead link|date=December 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> *''The Wishing Ring'' (1914) as The Earl's Son Giles *''The Heart of the Blue Ridge'' (1915) *''A Girl's Folly'' (1915) *''The Rack (1915 film)'' as Jack Freeman *''The Waking Dreamer'' (1915)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rl4hAQAAMAAJ&dq=chester+barnett+175+films&pg=RA1-PA3|title=Motion Picture Classic|date=August 9, 1915|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''What Happened to Jones (1915 film)'' as Richard Heatherly *''Trilby'' (1915)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvEmDwAAQBAJ&dq=chester+barnett+175+films&pg=PA175|title=Fort Lee: The Film Town|first=Richard|last=Koszarski|date=March 2, 2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-86196-942-5 |via=Google Books}}</ref> *''La Bohème (1916 film)'' as Marcel *''Public Be Damned'' (1917) *''The Law of Compensation'' (1917) *''The Challenge Accepted'' (1918) as Steve Carey *''The Great Adventure'' (1918) as Billy Blake *''Together'' (1918) as Jim Watson *''Woman'' (1918) as The fisherman *''The Challenge Accepted'' (1918) as Steve Carey *''A Wild Goose Chase'' (1919) *''Break the News to Mother'' (1919) as Doctor Sims *''Girl of the Sea'' (1920) as Lieut. Tom Ross<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/361470%7C31097/Chester-Barnett | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909085224/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/361470%7C31097/Chester-Barnett/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 9, 2014 | title=Chester Barnett }}</ref>
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Category:1884 births Category:1947 deaths Category:American male silent film actors Category:20th-century American male actors Category:20th-century American screenwriters Category:20th-century American male writers