Marc McDermott

Marcus McDermott (24 July 1871 – 5 January 1929) was an Australian actor who starred on Broadway and in over 180 American films from 1909 until his death. He was sometimes credited as Marc MacDermott.

Early life and career McDermott was born in Goulburn, New South Wales to Irish parents and he attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney. Later, while working as a hairdresser in central Sydney, McDermott took an active interest in amateur theatricals. In 1899 he was discovered by illustrious stage actor George Rignold, and he traveled on an extended Australian tour with Rignold's company. In mid-1902 McDermott traveled to New York via Canada, joining Mrs Patrick Campbell’s a company soon after and appearing on Broadway, as Sir George Orreyed in The Second Mrs. Tanqeray. In mid-1903 he traveled to England with Campbell and performed there until 1906 when he returned to the United States, his reputation by now well established. He was entombed in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Partial filmography Les Misérables (1909) A Christmas Carol (1910) as Ebenezer Scrooge How Spriggins Took Lodgers (1911) An Island Comedy (1911) What Happened to Mary? (1912) The Passer-By (1912) The Librarian (1912, Short) Who Will Marry Mary? (1913) The Man Who Disappeared (1914) Eugene Aram (1915) The Mystery of Room 13 (1915) The Price of Fame (1916) Whom the Gods Destroy (1916) Builders of Castles (1917) The Last Sentence (1917) An Alabaster Box (1917) Babette (1917) Mary Jane's Pa (1917) The Sixteenth Wife (1917) The Woman Between Friends (1918) The Thirteenth Chair (1919) The New Moon (1919) Kathleen Mavourneen (1919) Even as Eve (1920) - O'Hara While New York Sleeps (1920) Blind Wives (1920) Footlights (1921) Miss 139 (1921) The Spanish Jade (1922) The Lights of New York (1922) Lucretia Lombard (1923) Hoodman Blind (1923) The Satin Girl (1923) Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924) The Sea Hawk (1924) He Who Gets Slapped (1924) In Every Woman's Life (1924) Three Miles Out (1924) Siege (1925) Graustark (1925) Flesh and the Devil (1926) The Temptress (1926) The Taxi Dancer (1927) Resurrection (1927) California (1927) The Road to Romance (1927) Man, Woman and Sin (1927) Under the Black Eagle (1928) Glorious Betsy (1928) Yellow Lily (1928) The Whip (1928)