Walter Law

Beginning his long screen career in the early '10s with the Lubin company in Philadelphia, veteran stage actor Walter Law enjoyed his greatest success at Fox in 1916-1917, when he played Friar Laurence to Theda Bara's Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1916), Count de Varville to the great vamp's Camille (1917), and Zuoroff in Her Greatest Love, a 1917 Bara version of Ouida's Moths. There were many other important roles, but Law returned to the stage after playing General Lee in Marion Davies' Janice Meredith (1924) (Ken Maynard made his screen debut as Paul Revere in the same sequence). Returning to play bit parts in the talkie era, often at his former studio Fox, Law is perhaps best remembered as heroine Jean Rogers' father in the 1936 serial The Adventures of Frank Merriwell. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi