# Vincent Coleman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Vincent_Coleman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Vincent_Coleman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Coleman > Source revision: 1354688900 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American actor}} {{about||the former professional baseball player|Vince Coleman (baseball)|the Canadian train dispatcher|Vince Coleman (train dispatcher)}} {{Infobox person | name = Vincent Coleman | image = Vincent Coleman - Apr May 1920 MP.jpg | image_size = 210px | caption = ''[Motion Picture Magazine](/source/Motion_Picture_Magazine)'', 1920 | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|2|16|mf=y}} | birth_place = [Louisiana](/source/Louisiana), U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1971|10|26|1900|2|16|mf=y}} | death_place = [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles) U.S. | other_names = Willie B. Coleman | years_active = 1912–1923 }} '''Vincent Coleman''' (February 16, 1900 – October 26, 1971) was an American stage and film actor of the [silent film](/source/silent_film) era of the late 1910s and early 1920s. ==Biography== Born in [Louisiana](/source/Louisiana), Coleman began his acting career while still a young boy; touring the United States with the [Cecil Spooner](/source/Cecil_Spooner) stock theater company. Occasionally credited in the early years of his career as '''Willie B. Coleman''', he made the transition to film in the 1912 [Frank Montgomery](/source/Frank_Montgomery_(director)) drama short ''The Junior Officer'' at age twelve opposite film actors [Hobart Bosworth](/source/Hobart_Bosworth) and [Camille Astor](/source/Camille_Astor) before returning to [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre) at the age of sixteen to appear in the 1917 play ''Difference in Gods''.[http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=35841 Internet Broadway Database] Coleman then returned to filmmaking to play a variety of juvenile roles for such film studios as [Fox](/source/Fox_Film), [Goldwyn Pictures Corporation](/source/Goldwyn_Pictures_Corporation), [First National](/source/First_National_Pictures) and [Paramount](/source/Paramount_Pictures) opposite such actors as [Corinne Griffith](/source/Corinne_Griffith), [Mae Murray](/source/Mae_Murray), [Constance Talmadge](/source/Constance_Talmadge) and [Constance Binney](/source/Constance_Binney).[http://silentladies.com/BColeman.html Silent Ladies & Gents: ''Photoplay: Who's Who on the Screen'' (1920)] At the beginning of the 1920s, [Hollywood](/source/Hollywood%2C_California) film producers took notice of the handsome, fair, young actor and saw in Coleman a possible "All American" matinee idol to counter the "[Latin lover](/source/Latin_lover_(stereotype))" types such as [Ramón Novarro](/source/Ram%C3%B3n_Novarro), [Antonio Moreno](/source/Antonio_Moreno) and [Rudolf Valentino](/source/Rudolf_Valentino) that were becoming increasingly popular among the nation's theater-goers. In 1919 however, Coleman's further foray into moving pictures was a less than glamorous role in the anti-[syphilis](/source/syphilis) propaganda film ''Scarlet Trail'', which was inspired by the World War I era for-men-only medical pamphlet ''Don't Take a Chance''. Coleman was eventually groomed by the studios to become a leading man and had starring roles in the 1921 [George Fawcett](/source/George_Fawcett) directed remake of the 1914 [Mary Pickford](/source/Mary_Pickford) comedy film ''Such A Little Queen'' and ''The Magic Cup'', released the same year before returning to Broadway in July 1921 to star in the [Sam H. Harris](/source/Sam_H._Harris_(producer)) produced play ''[Nice People](/source/Nice_People_(play))'' opposite renowned stage actress [Tallulah Bankhead](/source/Tallulah_Bankhead). In 1923 Coleman appeared in the independently produced "epic" film ''Salome'' as Herod, opposite actress [Diana Allen](/source/Diana_Allen). The film proved to be a colossal financial disappointment however and Coleman's film career never recovered and the young actor became disillusioned with film. Coleman made only two more motion pictures (both released in 1923); ''Has The World Gone Mad!'' with [Hedda Hopper](/source/Hedda_Hopper) and [Elinor Fair](/source/Elinor_Fair) and the comedy ''The Purple Highway'' starring [Monte Blue](/source/Monte_Blue), [Madge Kennedy](/source/Madge_Kennedy) and [Pedro de Cordoba](/source/Pedro_de_Cordoba_(actor)). After retiring from films at the age of twenty-two, Coleman concentrated further on his stage career. Coleman died in [Los Angeles, California](/source/Los_Angeles%2C_California) in 1971 at the age of seventy-one. ==Complete filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1912|| ''The Junior Officer'' || || Short |- |1918|| ''The Scarlet Trail'' || Bob Grafton || |- |1918|| ''[The Prodigal Wife](/source/The_Prodigal_Wife)'' || Victor Middleton || |- |1919|| ''The Law of Nature'' || Guy Bolton || |- |1919|| ''[Should a Husband Forgive?](/source/Should_a_Husband_Forgive%3F)'' || Joh Carroll Jr. || |- |1920|| ''Partners of the Night'' || Gerald || |- |1920|| ''[Good References](/source/Good_References)'' || William Marshall || |- |1920|| ''For the Freedom of Ireland'' || Robert Emmett Corrigan || |- |1921|| ''[Princess Jones](/source/Princess_Jones)'' || Arthur Forbes || |- |1921|| ''[The Magic Cup](/source/The_Magic_Cup)'' || Bob Norton || |- |1921|| ''[Such a Little Queen](/source/Such_a_Little_Queen_(1921_film))'' || Stephen of Hetland || |- |1922|| ''[Fascination](/source/Fascination_(1922_film))'' || Ralph Kellogg (an American) || |- |1922|| ''[Divorce Coupons](/source/Divorce_Coupons)'' || Buddy || |- |1922|| ''A Game of Graft'' || || short film |- |1923|| ''[Salomé](/source/Salom%C3%A9_(1923_film))'' || Herod || |- |1923|| ''[Has the World Gone Mad?](/source/Has_the_World_Gone_Mad%3F)'' || The Adams Son || |- |1923|| ''[The Purple Highway](/source/The_Purple_Highway)'' || Dudley Quail || (final film role) |} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0171251}} * {{IBDB name}} * [http://silentladies.com/BColeman.html Vincent Coleman at Silent Ladies & Gents] * Vincent Coleman at [http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=1&TBL=PN&Type=CA&ID=151334 AFI Catalog, Silent Films] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, Vincent}} Category:1900 births Category:1970 deaths Category:American male stage actors Category:American male silent film actors Category:Male actors from Louisiana Category:20th-century American male actors --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Vincent Coleman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Coleman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Coleman?action=history)). 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