King Baggot
Acting
Born November 6, 1879 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies", "The Most Photographed Man in the World", and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon". Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947, wrote 18 screenplays, and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles: The Amat…
Known For · 40 titles
The Philadelphia Story
Boys Town
The Postman Always Rings Twice
A Night at the Opera
Rio Rita
Ziegfeld Girl
The Bad Sister
Swing Fever
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Sweepstake Annie
Marie Antoinette
San Francisco
Her Cardboard Lover
Honky Tonk
The Suburban
Parnell
Opening Day
What Price Hollywood?
Too Hot to Handle
Cheating Cheaters
The Shadow of Lightning Ridge
Come Live with Me
The Big Store
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Building for Democracy
Sweepstakes
The Death Kiss
Science
The Devil-Doll
The Ice Follies of 1939
Arsène Lupin Returns
I Take This Woman
The Call of the Savage
The Silent Stranger
It May Happen to You
The Man Who Stayed at Home
Over the Hills
Fingers at the Window
The Secret Heart
3 Kids and a Queen