Guy Edward Hearn

Edward Hearn
Edward Hearn and Wanda Hawley standing in The Truthful Liar (1922)
Born	(1888-09-06)September 6, 1888 Dayton, Washington, USA
Died	April 15, 1963(1963-04-15) (aged 74) Los Angeles County, California, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1915–1955
Spouse(s)	Tryna Saindon (divorced)

Guy Edward Hearn (September 6, 1888 – April 15, 1963) was an American actor who, in a forty-year film career, starting in 1915, played hundreds of roles, starting with juvenile leads, then, briefly, as leading man, all during the silent era. With the arrival of sound, he became a character actor, appearing in scores of productions for virtually every studio, in which he was mostly unbilled, while those credits in which he was listed, reflected at least nine stage names, most frequently Edward Hearn, but also Guy E. Hearn, Ed Hearn, Eddie Hearn, Eddie Hearne, and Edward Hearne.

Born in the small Washington city of Dayton, the seat of Columbia County, Hearn became an actor in his twenties, with a first known film credit listed in the 1915 short The Fool's Heart. His initial feature was Her Bitter Cup in 1916, the year during which he was seen in sixteen shorts and features. 1917 was equally prolific for him, providing seventeen appearances. As short films gave way to features, the number of his annual productions decreased (four in 1918, four in 1919 and five in 1920), but he continued to work steadily, with film credits in every year of his career. He was third-billed in Faith, the 1920 production starring Peggy Hyland with J. Parks Jones, and had a supporting role that year in the serial, Daredevil Jack, a vehicle for boxing champion Jack Dempsey.

Engaged by Universal Pictures' early silent film subsidiary, Bluebird Photoplays, as leading man to Ruth Clifford in 1918's The Lure of Luxury, Hearn was subsequently put under contract with the low-budget studio Film Booking Offices of America (also known as FBO Pictures Corporation) and alternated between roles as leading man (to Ruth Renick in Tahiti-filmed The Fire Bride, Jane Novak in Colleen of the Pines, both 1922, Gladys Walton in 1923's The Town Scandal, Laura La Plante in 1924's Excitement and Josie Sedgwick in 1925's The Outlaw's Daughter) and second leads (billed after Patsy Ruth Miller, Ralph Graves and Edna Murphy in 1924's Daughters of Today).