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Charles Stanton Ogle (June 5, 1865 – October 11, 1940) was an American stage and silent-film actor. He was the first actor to portray Frankenstein's monster in a motion picture in 1910 and played Long John Silver in Treasure Island in 1920.
The son of a minister from Ohio, Charles Stanton Ogle became a prolific character actor from stage and screen. Mostly cast in commanding roles in silents. Per haps most memorable as the screen's very first Frankenstein monster in Thomas Alva Edison's silent version Frankenstein (1910).
Feb 7, 2022 · Charles Stanton Ogle, an Ohio-born actor with numerous credits during the silent era, was the first to portray the Monster on-screen in the Thomas Edison-produced 1910 silent short,...
The small cast, who are not credited in the surviving 1910 print of the film, includes Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée.
The cover of this Edison publication features Charles Stanton Ogle in dramatic white make-up as the monster. The dismal failure of the film did not deter other filmmakers from taking up the Frankenstein story.
May 9, 2020 · The film starred Charles Stanton Ogle as the monster, Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, and Mary Fuller as Elizabeth, and was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley.
Charles Ogle was an American stage and silent screen actor. In 1910 he appeared as the Frankenstein monster in the first-ever film adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
