Biography

November 15, 1888 · Mattoon, Illinois, USA

November 15, 1974 · New York City, New York, USA (undisclosed)

James Woods Morrison

5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)

After leaving the film industry, he taught drama and speech at Parker Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, NY, for 17 years.

Diminutive contract star at Vitagraph from 1911 to 1916, often in boyish roles. He was trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and began in films, earning $25 a week.

Father: Andrew Morrison; Mother: Ida A. Woods.

[on why he left films] Because I was fed up with them. Everyone thought I was so old, as I'd been in films so long. A Los Angeles paper called me "the perennial juvenile", and I decided that was my exit line.

[in 1970] Most of my films made me sick. I wanted to do more with them, but the material wasn't there.

[about fellow Vitagraph star John Bunny] He looked down on anybody who wasn't as great as he was.

A Tale of Two Cities (1911) - $25 /week