Gardner James

{{Short description|American actor}} {{Infobox person | image = Gardner James - Dec 1926 Variety.jpg | image_size = | caption = 1926 Season's Greetings | name = Gardner James | birth_date = March 16, 1903 | birth_place = New York, New York, United States | death_date = June 23, 1953 (aged 50) | death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1922–1940 (film) }} '''Gardner James''' (1903–1953) was an American film actor.

In 1925 James traveled to Los Angeles as a coal-hand on a vessel. In 1926 he signed a five-year contract with Inspiration Pictures.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dream realized a la Hollywood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-post-record-gardner/146512888/ |access-date=May 3, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Evening Post-Record |date=July 31, 1926 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503023542/https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-post-record-gardner/146512888/ |archive-date=May 3, 2024 |page=7|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

After some stage experience with George Arliss, he entered silent films in 1922. While he once played a lead role, he was often billed third in the cast.<ref>Katchmer p. 177</ref>

He was married to the actress and writer Marian Constance Blackton,<ref>{{cite news |title=Wife Sues Gardner James, Actor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times-gardner-james/146513393/ |access-date=May 3, 2024 |work=The Kansas City Times |agency=Associated Press |date=October 30, 1928 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503024747/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times-gardner-james/146513393/ |archive-date=May 3, 2024|page=15 |via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> daughter of the founder of Vitagraph Studios, but this rapidly ended in divorce.{{Citation needed |date=May 2024}}

==Filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Beyond the Rainbow'' (1922) * ''The Love Bandit'' (1924) * ''Unrestrained Youth'' (1925) * ''Silent Sanderson'' (1925) * ''The Happy Warrior'' (1925) * ''The Night Patrol'' (1926) * ''Hell-Bent for Heaven'' (1926) * ''The Passionate Quest'' (1926) * ''The Amateur Gentleman'' (1926) * ''The Flaming Forest'' (1926) * ''The Gilded Highway'' (1926) * ''Ladies at Ease'' (1927) * ''Eager Lips'' (1927) * ''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' (1928) * ''The Big Killing'' (1928) * ''The Mating Call'' (1928) * ''The Wreck of the Singapore'' (1928) * ''The Studio Murder Mystery'' (1929) * ''The Flying Fleet'' (1929) * ''The Dawn Patrol'' (1930) * ''The Great Meadow'' (1931) * ''Bright Eyes'' (1934) * ''Captain Blood'' (1935) * ''Dante's Inferno''' (1935) * ''The White Angel'' (1936) * ''Crash Donovan'' (1936) * ''Adventures of Red Ryder'' (1940) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Katchmer, George A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses''. McFarland, 2015.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0416515}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:James, Gardner}} Category:American male film actors Category:American male stage actors Category:1903 births Category:1953 deaths Category:Male actors from New York City