Knute Erickson
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Knute Erickson (born Knut Timar Carlsson Eriksson; May 27, 1873 – December 31, 1945) was a Swedish-American vaudeville comedian and character actor.
Life and career
Sources differ regarding his origins. Some state that he was born as Carl Erickson in 1872 in Ogden, Utah, to Swedish immigrant parents,[1][2] but there is firm evidence, from birth records and his passport applications, that he was born as Knut Timar Carlsson Eriksson in Norrköping, Sweden in 1873, emigrating to the United States with his parents in 1881.[3]
He grew up in
While continuing to perform in vaudeville, he also became established after 1921 in minor character roles in Hollywood, starting with Gasoline Gus in which he appeared with Roscoe Arbuckle. Over the next fifteen years he appeared in over thirty more films, mostly in small parts and sometimes uncredited. These included performances in The Monster with Lon Chaney in 1925, The Non-Stop Flight in 1926, and The Bitter Tea of General Yen, directed by Frank Capra in 1933.[2]
Erickson died in Los Angeles in 1945.[5]
Gallery
- Character Actor Knute Erickson
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Knute Erickson
Daffy Dan
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Casting Directory
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References
- ^ a b Anthony Slide, "Knute Erickson", The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville, University Press of Mississippi, 2012, p.161
- ^ a b Trav S.D., "Knute Erickson: Toured Vaudeville as “Daffy Dan”", Travalanche, May 27, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2024
- ^ "Sweden, Indexed Birth Records, 1859-1947". Swedish Church Records Archive. Johanneshov, Sweden. 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
- ^ a b 'Yon Yonson", Salt Lake Telegram, January 21, 1946, p.16
- ^ a b "Stage Loses Veteran", Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, Hollywood, California, January 3, 1946, p.10
External links
- Knute Erickson at IMDb
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