Claude Payton


Claude Duval Payton was an American actor in many silent films and other films.
On stage, Claude Payton toured with the Spooner Stock Company, which was headed by his brother, Corse Payton, and his sister, Cecil Spooner. By 1914, Claude was working at the Thanhouser film producing company in New Rochelle, New York, where he mainly played the roles of villains or lawmen in Western films. Although Claude Payton survived the transition from silent movies to films with sound, in 1935 he was mainly in minor supporting roles in films. Claude retired from the filmmaking business in the mid-1940s.

Filmography

Jean of the Wilderness as Haskins The Master Hand as Chief of DetectivesA Woman There Was as High PriestThe Man Who Lost Himself as Prince ManiloffIf I Were King as MontigneyThe Soul of Youth as Pete MoranDice of Destiny as James TierneyWhen We Were 21 as DaveA Knight of the West as Ralph Barton The Grim Comedian as The Song of Life as Central Office ManTwo-Fisted Jefferson The Masked Avenger as Bruno DouglasDesert's Crucible as Tex FullerThe Men of Zanzibar as George Sheyer The Desert Bridegroom Trooper O'Neil as Black FloodDo and Dare as Córdoba Bells of San Juan as Jim GarsonCatch My Smoke as Tex Lynch The Devil's Dooryard as Fred BradleyThe Law Rustlers as Doc JordanDesert Rider as Rufe Kinkaid Skid Proof as Masters The Man from Wyoming as Jack HallowayThe Back Trail as Gentleman Harry KingThe Desert Outlaw as Black LoomisDaring Chances as Sampson BurkeThe Riddle Rider as Victor RaymondGold and the Girl as Rankin Dangerous Odds The Ridin' Streak as SheriffThe Texas Trail as Dan MerrillBen-Hur as Jesus The Cohens and Kellys as Bit Role The Yellow Back as Bruce CondonThe Western Whirlwind as Jeff TaylorSet Free as Burke TannerThe Crowd as Minor Role The Gate Crasher as Zanfield Dodging Danger Say It with Songs as JudgeThe Great Divide as Minor Role Up the River as Guard Arsène Lupin as Gendarme The Last Frontier as Colonel HallidayTex Takes a Holiday as SaundersZoo in Budapest as Captain of Police Fargo Express as Goss Partner #1The Son of Kong as Sailor/Suspenders Peddler Thunder Over Texas as Bruce LairdJealousy as Bit Role The Mighty Barnum as Spieler Les Misérables as Gendarme at Bishop's Home After the Dance as Guard The Public Menace as Detective Barbary Coast as Passenger A Night at the Opera as Police Captain One-Way Ticket as Detective Miss Pacific Fleet as Caretaker Anthony Adverse as Announcer of Guests at Ball San Quentin as Cop All American Sweetheart as Attendant Penrod and His Twin Brother as Deputy Broadway Musketeers as Policeman at Murder Scene The Spider's Web as Henchman Radarez Eternally Yours as Scotland Yard Man Tower of London as Councilman