{{Short description|English actor and director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Harold Entwistle | image = Harold Entwistle3.jpg | caption = Entwistle in ''Salomy Jane'' (1914) | occupation = Actor | birth_name = Charles Harold Entwistle | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1865|9|05}} | birth_place = Dorset, England, UK | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1944|4|01|1865|9|05}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, US | resting_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California | spouse = Bertha Jane Ross }}
'''Charles Harold Entwistle''' (5 September 1865 – 1 April 1944) was an actor on stage and in films, a manager of theatres, touring theatre companies, and director from England who migrated to the United States and worked in Hollywood during and after the silent film era. In England, he performed for the king and queen.<ref name=erst>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXNzAQAAQBAJ&dq=harold+entwistle&pg=PA13|title=Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide: A Biography|first=James Jr|last=Zeruk|date=18 October 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786473137|via=}}</ref>
==Personal life== He married actress Bertha Jane Ross.<ref name=erst/> He was known as a character actor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qEbAQAAMAAJ&dq=harold+entwistle&pg=PA1415|title=The Moving Picture World|date=5 April 1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|via=}}</ref>
He was the uncle of Peg Entwistle who died after jumping off the H in the Hollywood Sign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/harold_entwistle|title=Harold Entwistle|website=Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref>
He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref>
==Filmography== ===As an actor=== *''Salomy Jane'' (1914) *''The Summer Girl'' (1916) *''The Beggar of Cawnpore'' (1916) *''One of Many'' (1917) *''Miss Robinson Crusoe'' (1917) *''In the Hollow of Her Hand'' (1918) *''The Divorcee'' *''The Woman Under Oath'' (1919) *''The Moonstone'' (1934) *''Paris in Spring'' (1935)
===As director=== *''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1914 film)''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0258197}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Entwistle, Harold}} Category:1865 births Category:1944 deaths Category:English emigrants to the United States Category:English theatre directors Category:English male stage actors Category:English film directors Category:English male silent film actors Category:Male actors from Dorset