Slim Summerville
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Slim Summerville (at right) in Little Accident (1930)
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| Born |
George Joseph Somerville July 10, 1892 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Died | January 5, 1946 (aged 53) Laguna Beach, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | stroke |
| Occupation | Actor & Director |
| Years active | 1912–1946 |
| Spouse(s) |
Gertrude Roell (m. 1927–36) Eleanor Brown (m. 1937–46) |
Slim Summerville (born George Joseph Somerville, July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946) was an American film actor, best known as a comedy performer.
Born George Joseph Somerville in Albuquerque, New Mexico, his mother died when he was five. Moving from New Mexico to Canada to Oklahoma, he had a nomadic upbringing.
He married Gertrude Martha Roell on 19 November 1927. In early 1932, the Summervilles adopted a four-week-old baby boy whom they christened Elliott George. The couple divorced in September 1936, and he then married Eleanor Brown (also a divorcee) who was his nurse who cared for him when he was sick and fell in love and married him in 1937 to keep him from getting sick again.
Summerville died of a stroke on January 5, 1946 in Laguna Beach, California. He is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in South Los Angeles community of Inglewood, California. Twenty years after his death, his beach front house on Sleepy Hollow Lane in Laguna Beach was converted into the The Beach House restaurant, now the Driftwood Kitchen.
Summerville's first job was as a messenger for the Canadian Pacific Telegraphs in Chatham, Ontario where he lived with his English grandparents.
He was working as a poolroom porter when found by Edgar Kennedy, who took him to Mack Sennett where he started at $3.50 per day. His first role was as a "Keystone Kop" in Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912).
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