Carl Stockdale also known as Carlton Stockdale (19 February 1874 - 15 March 1953) was one of the longest-working Hollywood veteran actors, with a career dating from the early 1910s. He also made the difficult transition from silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

s, to talkies.

A native of Worthington, Minnesota

Worthington, Minnesota

Worthington is a city in Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 12,764 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Nobles County.The city's site was first settled in the 1870s as Okabena Station on a line of the Chicago, St...

, he was in Hollywood as early as 1913 with a small role in Gilbert M. Anderson's Broncho Billy's Last Deed. He remained busy through the 1940s, then his career slowed down.

Connection to the Murder of William Desmond Taylor

Stockdale was Charlotte Shelby

Charlotte Shelby

Charlotte Shelby was a popular Broadway actress in her youth and was long noted as a suspect in the murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor.-Stage mother to scandal:...

's close friend, he stated on the witness stand that he was with Mrs. Shelby, a major suspect, when William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...

was murdered, therefore she could not have killed him.

External links

• 12 Silent film celebrities connected with the Taylor murder case