{{short description|American actor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Gus Pixley | image = Harvard Theatre Collection - Gus Pixley TCS 1.798.jpg | caption = Cabinet card, c. 1890 | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1873}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and given age|1923|06|02|49}} | death_place = Saranac Lake, New York, US | years_active = 1910–1921 }}

'''Gus Pixley''' (1873 &ndash; June 2, 1923){{citation needed |date=March 2024}} was an American actor-singer and comic on the theatre stage, and an actor of the silent era. He appeared in burlesque, vaudeville, and minstrelsy with "America's greatest female impersonator," Burton Stanley. They toured widely with Emerson's Minstrels in the United States and Australia in the 1880s and 1890s.<ref>Monarchs Of Minstrelsy (1908)</ref><ref>Alice Nielsen and the Gayety of Nations, by Dall Wilson (2012)</ref> Pixley was on Broadway and toured America in Victor Herbert's musical Babes In Toyland as the character "Inspector Marmaduke."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=gus%20pixley|title=Search results - "gus pixley" - NYPL Digital Collections|publisher=|accessdate=February 24, 2017}}</ref> Pixley appeared in more than 130 films between 1910 and 1921. He died in Saranac Lake, New York, on June 2, 1923, at age 49.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41307152/pixley/ |title=Pixley |work=Chicago Tribune |page=10 |date=June 5, 1923 |access-date=December 29, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Partial filmography== * ''For His Son'' (1912 short) (uncredited) * ''The Transformation of Mike'' (1912 short) * ''So Near, Yet So Far'' (1912 short) * ''At Coney Island'' (1912 short) * ''Brutality'' (1912 short) * ''My Hero'' (1912 short) (unconfirmed) * ''The Water Nymph (1912)'' * ''The Mothering Heart'' (1913 short) (uncredited) * ''Almost a Wild Man'' (1913) * ''Lord Chumley'' (1914 short) * ''The Girl from Porcupine'' (1921)

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==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|id=0686142|name=Gus Pixley}} * {{IBDB name|455678}} {{Authority control}}

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