Rockliffe Fellowes

Canadian actor

Rockliffe Fellowes
Fellowes in 1923
Born	Rockliffe St. Patrick Fellowes (1884-03-17)17 March 1884 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Died	28 January 1950(1950-01-28) (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	Canadian
Years active	1907–1934

Rockliffe St Patrick Fellowes (17 March 1884 – 28 January 1950),^[1]^[2] was a Canadian actor born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He starred in films such as Regeneration and Monkey Business.

Biography

Rockliffe St Patrick Fellowes was born in New Edinburgh, Ottawa, Ontario on St Patrick's Day 1884, a descendant of noted Canadian families.

After following a business career for some years, he gave it up to go onto the stage in 1907 and later made his entry into films as the redemptive hero of Raoul Walsh's 1915 silent gangster film Regeneration. He appeared in over 60 films, mostly silents and is best remembered today for his role as gangster Joe Helton in Monkey Business (1931) starring the Marx Brothers.^{[citation needed]}

Partial filmography

Regeneration (1915)
Where Love Leads (1916)
The Web of Desire (1917)
The Bondage of Fear (1917)
Man's Woman (1917)
Friend Husband (1918)
The Panther Woman (1918)
The Cup of Fury (1920)
Yes or No ? (1920)
In Search of a Sinner (1920)
The Point of View (1920)
The Price of Possession (1921)
Bits of Life (1921)
Island Wives (1922)
The Strangers' Banquet (1922)
Trifling with Honor (1923)
The Remittance Woman (1923)
The Spoilers (1923)
Borrowed Husbands (1924)
Flapper Wives (1924)
The Signal Tower (1924)
Missing Daughters (1924)
Cornered (1924)
The Border Legion (1924)
The Garden of Weeds (1924)
East of Suez (1925)
Without Mercy (1925)
Counsel for the Defense (1925)
Rose of the World (1925)
Rocking Moon(1926)
Silence (1926)
Honesty – The Best Policy (1926)
Syncopating Sue (1926)
The Taxi Dancer (1927)
The Satin Woman (1927)
Outside the Law (1930)
Monkey Business (1931)
Renegades of the West (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) unbilled
The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
Rusty Rides Alone (1933)
Back Page (1934)

References

^ Silent Film Necrology 2nd Edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana...Retrieved 22 June 2018
^ Who Was Who on Screen c.1977 by Evelyn Mack Truitt..Retrieved 22 June 2018

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rockliffe Fellowes.

Rockliffe Fellowes at IMDb
Rockliffe Fellowes at the Internet Broadway Database
Rockcliffe Fellowes portraits (New York City Public Library, Billy Rose collection)