# Harold Entwistle

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{{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](/source/Salomy_Jane_(1914_film))'' (1914)
| occupation              = Actor
| birth_name              = Charles Harold Entwistle
| birth_date              = {{Birth date|df=yes|1865|9|05}}
| birth_place             = [Dorset](/source/Dorset), England, UK
| death_date              = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1944|4|01|1865|9|05}}
| death_place             = [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), California, US
| resting_place           = [Forest Lawn Memorial Park](/source/Forest_Lawn_Memorial_Park%2C_Glendale), [Glendale, California](/source/Glendale%2C_California)
| spouse                  = Bertha Jane Ross
}}

'''Charles Harold Entwistle''' (5 September 1865 &ndash; 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](/source/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](/source/Peg_Entwistle) who died after jumping off the H in the [Hollywood Sign](/source/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](/source/Forest_Lawn_Memorial_Park%2C_Glendale), [Glendale, California](/source/Glendale%2C_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](/source/Salomy_Jane_(1914_film))'' (1914)
*''[The Summer Girl](/source/The_Summer_Girl)'' (1916)
*''[The Beggar of Cawnpore](/source/The_Beggar_of_Cawnpore)'' (1916)
*''[One of Many](/source/One_of_Many_(film))'' (1917)
*''[Miss Robinson Crusoe](/source/Miss_Robinson_Crusoe)'' (1917)
*''[In the Hollow of Her Hand](/source/In_the_Hollow_of_Her_Hand)'' (1918)
*''[The Divorcee](/source/The_Divorcee_(1919_film))''
*''[The Woman Under Oath](/source/The_Woman_Under_Oath)'' (1919)
*''[The Moonstone](/source/The_Moonstone_(1934_film))'' (1934)
*''[Paris in Spring](/source/Paris_in_Spring)'' (1935)

===As director===
*''[Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1914 film)](/source/Mrs._Wiggs_of_the_Cabbage_Patch_(1914_film))''

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb name|0258197}}

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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

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