Norman Kerry

Norman Kerry was an American actor whose screen career began in 1916 and lasted twenty-five years, reaching its height in the silent era of the 1920s. He made his first film appearance in the comedy Manhattan Madness, then rose to leading status in A Little Princess and appeared again with Mary Pickford in Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley. Often cast as a dashing swashbuckler or seductive leading man, he became a popular matinee idol. In 1923 he starred in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) with Lon Chaney and Patsy Ruth Miller and in Merry-Go-Round with Mary Philbin. He reunited with Chaney and Philbin for The Phantom of the Opera (1925), an enormous critical and financial success, and appeared with Chaney again in The Unknown (1927), also starring Joan Crawford. After sound arrived, his career declined; he made few American films after 1930, his last being Tanks a Million in 1941. He received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 1960.