Eugene Strong
American actor and film producer (1893-1962)
Eugene Strong (August 9, 1893 – June 25, 1962) was an American film actor and vaudevillian.
Career
Eugene Strong oscillated between stage and film work throughout his acting career. He played the lead role in the stage production of The Virginian for two years. He was working in vaudeville in 1915.
Strong's first film was The Crimson Stain Mystery (1916); he received positive notice for his role as a man seduced by a vampire.
Strong returned to vaudeville in the 1920s. Strong worked with Valeska Surrat and supported Surrat in a lawsuit brought against her by Walter Percival in 1920. He was part of the vaudeville act Mann and Strong, with singer Hazel Mann. A Variety review of the play Garage Love states, "Strong, as always, is the personified matinee hero who gets the flappers on sight... Strong is a romantic 'hero' who has few equals.
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