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Gus Pixley

1864 – 1923

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About Gus Pixley

Lived 1864 – 1923 (aged 58–59). Gus Pixley was an American actor and film actor.

Gus Pixley (1873 – June 2, 1923) was an American actor-singer and comic on the theatre stage, and an actor of the silent era. He appeared in burlesque, vaudeville, and minstrelsy with "America's greatest female impersonator," Burton Stanley. They toured widely with Emerson's Minstrels in the United States and Australia in the 1880s and 1890s. Pixley was on Broadway and toured America in Victor Herbert's musical Babes In Toyland as the character "Inspector Marmaduke." Pixley appeared in more than 130 films between 1910 and 1921. He died in Saranac Lake, New York, on June 2, 1923, at age 49.

Partial filmography For His Son (1912 short) (uncredited) The Transformation of Mike (1912 short) So Near, Yet So Far (1912 short) At Coney Island (1912 short) Brutality (1912 short) My Hero (1912 short) (unconfirmed) The Water Nymph (1912) The Mothering Heart (1913 short) (uncredited) Almost a Wild Man (1913) Lord Chumley (1914 short) The Girl from Porcupine (1921)

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actor (1864-1923)

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Gus Pixley was born in 1864.

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Gus Pixley died on 2 June 1923 in Saranac Lake.

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Gus Pixley was an actor and film actor.

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Gus Pixley was American.

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· Wikipedia: Gus Pixley

· Wikidata: Q3121009

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