Fred DeSilva

born: 07 February 1885
Lisbon,
Portugal
died: 16 February 1929
Norwalk, California,
United States of America
(age 44)

Portugese-born comedian, in many silent comedies and worked with Oliver Hardy in some of Larry Semon's later Vitagraph shorts billed as Fred DeSilva. Fred also worked in many silent westerns using the name of Fred Lancaster. In 1926 Fred's wife was killed in a landslide in Los Angeles. Fred went into a mental hospital where he died in 1929.
Real name: Frederick Lancaster
Height: 5'11"
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography;
plus all films with Babe Hardy.

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1925
His Wooden Wedding
Rejected suitor
NON-HAL ROACH FILMS

1923
The Barnyard
[?]

1923
The Midnight Cabaret
[?]

1923
The Gown Shop
Dressmaker

Acknowledgements:
Tommie Hicks (information in bio)

This page was last updated on: 08 November 2017