Sam De Grasse: Sam De Grasse. Actor: The Man Who Laughs. Born in Canada, Sam De Grasse entered films in 1912 and specialized in playing thoroughly disreputable, nasty, slimy bad guys. Douglas Fairbanks was so impressed with De Grasse's villainy that he used the actor in several of his more memorable productions. He wasn't the only member of the De Grasse family in films, though. His brother Joseph De Grasse was an actor...
Known For: The Man Who Laughs (King James II(as Sam DeGrasse)), Blind Husbands (The Husband - Dr. Robert Armstrong), Intolerance (Arthur Jenkins), When a Man Loves (Comte Guillot de Morfontaine)