Dan Mason
Biography
Dan Mason was an American film actor whose screen career spanned more than one hundred pictures released between 1913 and 1929. Born in Syracuse, he began in 1913 with Edison Studios, where he worked with William Wadsworth, Gertrude McCoy and Arthur Housman. He played the Skipper, a small-town trolley driver, in the Toonerville Trolley Series of 17 two-reel shorts adapted from Fontaine Fox's comic strip Toonerville Folks. The Betzwood Film Company produced them from 1920 to 1922, with Ira M. Lowry directing all but The Skipper's Treasure Garden. The series opened with The Toonerville Trolley That Meets all Trains in September 1920. From 1922 to 1923 he played Pop Tuttle in the Plump Center Comedies, shorts made for Gerson Pictures Corporation and directed by Robert Eddy. He died in 1929.
76years old at death
- Born Syracuse
- Died Bearsville
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as Dan Grassman and Daniel Grassman
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 3 years1925 to 1928
Every film, newest first
- 1928Lilac TimeIMDb rating 6.5
- 1926So This Is ParisIMDb rating 7.1
- 1925The Big ParadeIMDb rating 7.9
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Worked with
Dan Mason shares two films with George Beranger, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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George W. HillDirector, 1 film, 1925
All films by George W. Hill
King VidorDirector, 1 film, 1925
All films by King Vidor
All films by Ernst Lubitsch
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