Carlyle Blackwell: Carlyle Blackwell. Actor: The Ocean Waif. Carlyle Blackwell was a popular American matinee idol and occasional director of the silent cinema. Debonair and darkly handsome, he made his debut with Vitagraph in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910) and was seldom out of work as a romantic lead, progressing from one- and two-reelers to feature films by 1914. He was Kalem's number one star until 1915, when Jesse L. Lasky poached him...
Known For: The Ocean Waif (Ronald Roberts), Bulldog Drummond (Captain Hugh Drummond), Beyond the Cities (Jim Campbell), On Dangerous Ground (Bradford Stewart)