George Cowl

{{Short description|British actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = George Cowl | image = George Cowl, Dorothy Sebastian, and Tim McCoy in The Adventurer (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Cowl in ''The Adventurer'' | birth_date = 24 February 1878 | birth_place = Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom | death_date = 4 April 1942 (aged 64) | death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1914–1942 (film) }} '''George Cowl''' (1878–1942) was a British film actor active in the United States.<ref>Goble p.289</ref><ref>Solomon p.300</ref> He also directed four films during the silent era.

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Dan'' (1914) * ''The Rack'' (1916) * ''The Closed Road'' (1916) * ''The Beloved Adventuress'' (1917) * ''Her Hour'' (1917) * ''The Stolen Paradise'' (1917) * ''The Crimson Dove'' (1917) * ''Youth'' (1917) * ''Betsy Ross'' (1917) * ''The Corner Grocer'' (1917) * ''The Iron Ring'' (1917) * ''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (1919) * ''Love, Honor and Obey'' (1920) * ''The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes'' (1920) * ''The Plaything of Broadway'' (1921) * ''Whispering Shadows'' (1921) * ''The Glory of Clementina'' (1922) * ''Pink Gods'' (1922) * ''Fashionable Fakers'' (1923) * ''The Prisoner'' (1923) * ''Secrets'' (1924) * ''The Jade Cup'' (1926) * ''Marriage License?'' (1926) * ''Broadway Madness'' (1927) * ''Court Martial'' (1928) * ''The Adventurer'' (1928) * ''The Jazz Cinderella'' (1930) * ''Secrets of Hollywood'' (1933) * ''Riptide'' (1934) * ''What Every Woman Knows'' (1934) * ''Step Lively, Jeeves!'' (1937) * ''Conquest'' (1937) * ''Easy Living'' (1937) * ''The Glass Key'' (1942) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915–1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0184782}}

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