
Acting
Born July 4, 1877 · St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Delbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film. Born in the Southwestern Ontario city of St. Thomas, Dell Henderson started his acting career on the stage, but appeared in his first movie Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court already in 1908. Henderson was a frequent associate of film pioneer D.W. Griffith since 1909 and appeared in numerous of his early shorts in Hollywood. He also acted on a less prolific basis in the movies of producer Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studios. In addition to acting, Henderson also directed nearly 200 silent films between 1911 and 1928. Most of those films are forgotten or lost, but he also directed movies with silent stars like Harry Carey and Roscoe Arbuckle. Henderson also worked as a writer on numerous screenplays. After retiring from directing in 1927, Henderson turned to acting full-time and played important supporting roles in King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) and as General Marmaduke Pepper in Show People (1928). The advent of sound film damaged his acting career, and he often had to play smaller roles. In the 1930s, the comedic character actor appeared on several occasions as a comic foil for such comedians as The Three Stooges, W. C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy. He often played somewhat pompous figures like judges, businessmen, detectives or mayors. Modern audiences will remember Henderson as annoyed hospital president Dr. Graves in The Three Stooges film Men in Black and the put-upon chaperone in the Little Rascals film Choo-Choo!. He also appeared as a Night Court Judge in Laurel and Hardy's Our Relations (1936) and as a friendly Car salesman in Leo McCarey's drama Make Way for Tomorrow (1937). Henderson ended his film career after numerous small roles in 1950. Henderson died of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 79. He was married with actress Florence Lee until his death, they made several silent films together.

The Rambling Ranger
1927

Accused
1925

Pursued
1925

The Bad Lands
1925

Battling Brewster
1924

One Law for the Woman
1924

Gambling Wives
1924

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
1923

Sure-Fire Flint
1922

The Broken Silence
1922

The Girl from Porcupine
1921

Dead or Alive
1921

Dynamite Allen
1921

The Dead Line
1920

The Shark
1920

Three Green Eyes
1919

Hit or Miss
1919

Courage for Two
1919

Love in a Hurry
1919

Hitting the Trail
1918

The Road to France
1918

By Hook or Crook
1918

The Beloved Blackmailer
1918

The Golden Wall
1918

My Wife
1918

Who Loved Him Best?
1918

The Impostor
1918

Her Second Husband
1917

Please Help Emily
1917

The Beautiful Adventure
1917

Outcast
1917

A Girl Like That
1917
A Coney Island Princess
1916

Rolling Stones
1916

Wife and Auto Trouble
1916
Because He Loved Her
1916

Merely A Married Man
1915
Those Bitter Sweets
1915
For Better - But Worse
1915
A Bear Affair
1915

Ambrose's Nasty Temper
1915
Ambrose's Fury
1915
Gussle, the Golfer
1914

The Plumber
1914

Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker
1914
'Curses!' They Remarked
1914
Liberty Belles
1914
For the Son of the House
1913
The Lady in Black
1913
A Modest Hero
1913

A Woman in the Ultimate
1913
Black and White
1913
The Suffragette Minstrels
1913
Father's Chicken Dinner
1913
Papa's Baby
1913
The Widow's Kids
1913
Those Little Flowers
1913
Pa Says
1913
Almost a Wild Man
1913
Red Hicks Defies the World
1913
Highbrow Love
1913
The Power of the Camera
1913
What Is the Use of Repining?
1913
Getting Rid of Trouble
1912
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
1912

The Fickle Spaniard
1912

Annie Get Your Gun
1950

Once More, My Darling
1949

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947

Undercurrent
1946

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945

Main Street After Dark
1945

The Great Morgan
1945

The Missing Juror
1944

Du Barry Was a Lady
1943

Slightly Dangerous
1943

Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942

The Major and the Minor
1942

Arizona Terrors
1942

Young People
1940

Stranger on the Third Floor
1940

Millionaires in Prison
1940

You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940

Little Orvie
1940

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940

Fifth Avenue Girl
1939

Frontier Marshal
1939

The Chump Takes a Bump
1939

Love Affair
1939

Men with Wings
1938

Rebellious Daughters
1938

The Girl of the Golden West
1938

Arsène Lupin Returns
1938

Wells Fargo
1937

The Awful Truth
1937