Doc Crane
Doc Crane was an American silent film actor.
Crane was a medical doctor in Boston who served in the Civil War and returned to his practice after its end. When he was 65, he moved to California to retire. After financial difficulties depleted his savings, he found work as a character actor at Universal studios, drawing upon his experience in amateur dramatic productions when he was in medical school.
He was signed in 1914 and starred in about 30 films before his retirement three years later in 1917.
Filmography
- The Higher Law as King Louis XI
- The Last Volunteer as Raolf Ardelheim
- The Oubliette as King Louis XI
- The Tragedy of Whispering Creek as Prospector
- The Gambler's Oath
- Father and the Boys
- The Beloved Vagabond as Asticot
- Lord John in New York as L.J. Calit
- The College Orphan as Socrates
- The Broken Coin as Pawnbroker
- The Melting Pot as Quincy Davenport
- Mixed Blood
- A Woman's Eyes
- A Daughter of the Night
- The Human Cactus
- What Love Can Do as Matthew
- A Youth of Fortune as Professor Higgenbotham
- Drugged Waters as Dr. Jennings
- The Red Lie
- Discontent
- The Grey Sisterhood
- Flirting with Death
- The Blood of His Fathers as John Graham
- The Lure of the Circus
- Jungle Treachery Flirting with Death The Hidden Spring as Daniel Kerston
- The Doctor's Deception
- The Spirit of Romance as Mace
- Mary from America
- ''Pollyanna''