{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Short description|American actor (1895–1938)}} {{Infobox person | name = Jack Dougherty | image = The Fighting Ranger (1925) - 9.jpg | caption = Newspaper advertisement for ''The Fighting Ranger'' (1925) | birth_name = Virgil Ashley Dougherty | birth_date = November 16, 1895 | birth_place = Bowling Green, Missouri, U.S. | death_date = May 16, 1938 (aged 42) | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | occupation = Actor | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Barbara La Marr|1923|1926|end=her death}} * {{marriage|Virginia Brown Faire|1927|1928|end=divorce}} }} }}
'''Jack Dougherty''' (born November 16, 1895 – May 16, 1938 as '''Virgil Ashley Dougherty''') was an American actor who appeared in B-movies in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380557244/?terms=%22jack+dougherty%22+actor|title=Lead with American Beauty|last=|first=|date=June 28, 1922|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> He was married to actress Barbara La Marr at the time of her death.
== Biography == Jack was born in Bowling Green, Missouri, to Roy Dougherty and Julia Ach. The family relocated to Southern California when Jack was young.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/629730012/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=Moose Minstrel Players Give High-Class Performance|last=|first=|date=February 24, 1921|website=Santa Maria Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> He began a career as an actor in Broadway musicals in the late 1910s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/616942484/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22+actor|title=Katherine Acquires Leading Man|last=|first=|date=August 5, 1922|website=The Sacramento Bee|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> In 1920, after returning from serving in France during World War I, he was signed with Metro to play Alice Lake's leading man.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380477215/?terms=%22jack+dougherty%22+actor|title=Jack Dougherty Engaged|last=|first=|date=October 15, 1920|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref>
In 1923, Dougherty signed a five-year contract at Universal, and in the same year, married actress Barbara La Marr. The marriage was tumultuous, and multiple separations were noted in the press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457915572/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=Barbara LaMarr in New Marital Row|last=|first=|date=July 9, 1924|website=The San Francisco Examiner|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> The pair were still legally wed, however, La Marr died of tuberculosis in 1926 at the age of 29.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/95379659/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=The Pace That Killed|last=|first=|date=April 11, 1926|website=Oakland Tribune|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/531584254/?terms=%22jack+dougherty%22+actor|title=Noted Star of Films Ill in South|last=|first=|date=January 7, 1926|website=Visalia Daily Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref>
In 1927, Dougherty married his second wife, actress Virginia Brown Faire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380401381/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=It's Birthday Week!|last=|first=|date=December 11, 1927|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> The marriage did not last long—the pair parted ways in 1929, and she soon married director Duke Worne.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/622283043/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=Hollywood Marriage in July Is Rumored|last=|first=|date=March 15, 1929|website=The Pasadena Post|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> In 1928, he and actress Lottie Pickford were assaulted by robbers outside of a cafe in East Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/385602599/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=Pickford Case Baffles Police|last=|first=|date=November 10, 1928|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> Later that year, Dougherty was charged for assaulting another male guest at a party held by Pickford.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457432875/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=Guest Chokes Hostess as Fight Rages|last=|first=|date=December 26, 1928|website=The San Francisco Examiner|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref>
His legal foibles and troubles with alcohol led to diminishing roles on screen right as the silent era waned; he was no longer getting starring roles or gigs from major studios. After an attempted suicide in 1933, he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning on May 16, 1938, in the Hollywood Hills; he reportedly left behind four suicide notes that blamed financial troubles for his ultimate fate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/617268424/?terms=%22jack+daugherty%22|title=Virgil Dougherty, Actor, Kills Self in Auto|last=|first=|date=May 17, 1938|website=The Sacramento Bee|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/629640717/?terms=%22jack+dougherty%22|title=Up and Down California|last=|first=|date=May 17, 1938|website=Santa Maria Times|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> He was 42 years old.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ellenberger|first=Allan R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bOJCgAAQBAJ&q=%22jack+dougherty%22+actor&pg=PA183|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|date=May 1, 2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0983-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Stumpf|first=Charles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSP4lHULPwsC&q=%22jack+dougherty%22+actor&pg=PA19|title=ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career|date=April 13, 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6023-6|language=en}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== {{div col}} *''Neptune's Bride'' (1920) *''The Greater Claim'' (1921) *''Chain Lightning'' (1922) *''Second Hand Rose'' (1922) *''Impulse'' (1922) *''Money, Money, Money'' (1923) *''The Haunted Valley'' (1923) *''The Wheel of Fortune'' (1923) *''A Girl of the Limberlost'' (1924) *''The Iron Man'' (1924) *''The Meddler'' (1925) *''The Burning Trail'' (1925) *''The Fighting Ranger'' (1925) *''The Meddler'' (1925) *''The Scarlet Streak'' (1925) *''The Radio Detective'' (1926) *''The Runaway Express'' (1927) *''The Fire Fighters'' (1927) *''Down the Stretch'' (1927) *''Arizona Bound'' (1927) *''Special Delivery'' (1927) *''Lure of the Night Club'' (1927) *''The Trail of the Tiger'' (1927) *''Haunted Island'' (1928) *''Gypsy of the North'' (1928) *''Into No Man's Land'' (1928) *''The Vanishing West'' (1928) *''The Body Punch'' (1929) *''Afraid to Talk'' (1932) *''General Spanky'' (1936) *''Sinner Take All'' (1936) *''Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge'' (1937) *''It Can't Last Forever'' (1937) *''Charlie Chan on Broadway'' (1937) *''The Game That Kills'' (1937) *''Double Wedding'' (1937) *''No Time to Marry'' (1938) *''The Big Broadcast of 1938'' (1938) *''One Wild Night'' (1938) *''The Main Event'' (1938) {{div col end}}
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==External links== {{commons category|Jack Dougherty (actor)}} *{{IMDb name|0234847}}
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