This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media in February 2013. Today is the birthday of the great silent comedian Chester Conklin (1886-1971). A former circus clown and actor in musicals, Conklin [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:29AM on January 11, 2013