1. – Thomas Meighan, Male and Female, 1919. The handsome Texan was a Cecil B DeMille favourite in seven films. He was too ill to be JM Barrie’s admirable butler, Chrichton – the role made Meighan a star. With a pronounced limp, Dexter returned to the fold in two other Gloria Swanson films in 1920. DeMille looked on him like a (second) adopted son. He was the matchmaker behind Dexter marrying Marie Doro, co-star of his first CB film, Heart of Nora Flynn, l916. After their divorce, DeMille next staged Dexter’s secret marriage to socialite Nina Chisholm Untermeyer at the DeMille home in 1922, three years before Dexter retired.
Birth year: 1870Death year: 1941Other name: Casting Calls: 0