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| Pete Bell |
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born:
27 August 1872 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America |
died:
06 November 1952 Saginaw, Michigan, United States of America (age 80) |
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American actor and acrobat, the husband and stage partner of Eva Bell. Formerly with the Barnum & Bailey Circus as part of the duo "Bell and Henry," where Pete was well known as a double somersault leaper, Pete and Eva performed together as "Bell and Eva," performing a bounding trampoline act; both also acted alongside a young Oliver Hardy in his earliest films at Lubin. Peter Greenwald (Pete) married Eva Scranton on 6 November 1907 in London, Ontario, Canada. They settled in Eva's hometown of Saginaw, Michigan, and had two children: Peter Leroy Greenwald (1909-1971) and Evelyn May Greenwald (1911-1936); Evelyn, who worked in her parents' act, tragically succumbed to burns, at age 25, after her bedwear caught on fire from a cigarette. Pete passed away on his and Eva's 45th wedding anniversary. The whole family is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw. |
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Real name: Peter William Greenwald Height: 5'3" |
Films listed on this page: all films with Babe Hardy. |
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| ▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS |
 1915 |
Spaghetti And Lottery Waiter |
| Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q239-HYVH (birth record) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS31-B9G (1900 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-712H (1900 passport app.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSZZ-VHZ (1907 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLY8-YRR (1910 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ7Q-MKZ (1920 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7MM-YWR (1930 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K41C-62S (1940 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FSL-NXFC (1950 Census) Peter W Greenwald, "Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952" (Ancestry.com) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KQ4-789R (Social Security Numident File) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62942114 (Find a Grave) https://archive.org/details/variety08-1907-11/page/n89/mode/1up?q=%22pete+bell%22&view=theater (Variety, 16 Nov 1907) https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1907-11-23_19_47/page/16/mode/1up?q=%22scranton+bell%22&view=theater (The Billboard, 23 Nov 1907) https://archive.org/details/variety09-1908-01/page/n77/mode/1up?q=%22pete+and+eva+bell%22&view=theater (Variety, 18 Jan 1908) https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1914-06-27_26_26/page/54/mode/1up?q=%22mr+and+mrs+pete+bell%22&view=theater (The Billboard, 27 Jun 1914) https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1915-03-27_27_13/page/37/mode/1up?q=%22bell+and+eva%22&view=theater (The Billboard, 27 Mar 1915) https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1927-04-02_39_14/page/62/mode/1up?q=%22pete+bell%22&view=theater (The Billboard, 02 Apr 1927) https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/30s/1936/BB-1936-05-30.pdf#page=32 (The Billboard, 30 May 1936) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF74-SF5 (daughter Evelyn May Greenwald's death certificate, 1936) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research) This page was last updated on: 22 June 2024 |