Stuart Holmes: Stuart Holmes. Actor: The Man Who Laughs. Stuart Holmes, born Joseph Liebchen, was a silent screen leading man (from 1909) who starred in Fox's first feature film, Life's Shop Window (1914), filmed on Staten Island for $4,500. Being of somewhat menacing demeanour, the cold-eyed, moustachioed Holmes quickly discovered his penchant for playing dastardly villains of French, Italian or Russian extraction. He was highly rated by critics for his Grand Duke...
Known For: The Man Who Laughs (Lord Dirry-Moir), The Prisoner of Zenda (Grand Duke 'Black' Michael), The Rip-Tide (Count Boris Voronsky), When a Man Loves (King Louis XV)