Nat Carr

Nat Carr was an actor who began in stand-up comedy before moving into silent films and early talkies, following his older brother, the stage and film actor Alexander Carr, into show business. Born Natan Krechevsky in Poltava in the Russian Empire, he grew up partly in Winnipeg and later in San Francisco. He entered movies with a featured role in His People (1925) as Chaim Barowitz, and played Levi in The Jazz Singer (1927). He also co-wrote the story for The Talk of Hollywood with Mark Sandrich in 1929 and starred in it. His other films included The Roaring Twenties, Dodge City, Dark Victory and Sergeant York. His final screen role was as a tourist in Passage from Hong Kong, a comedy-mystery from 1941. Over an eighteen-year career he appeared in more than 100 films, most of them features, and he died in 1944.