Richard Talmadge

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 12/02/1892

Date of death : 01/25/1981

City of birth : Camburg, Saxe-Meiningen [now Thuringia], Germany

He first came to the USA as a boy member of the famed acrobats, the Mazetti Troupe, that had been engaged by Barnum & Bailey Circus. Richard began in films, supposedly, as a stunt double for Doug Fairbanks, Sr., then graduated to films under his own name.