Listed in the Guiness Book of World Records for having appeared in more
films than any other actor (into the thousands).
The 1940 U.S. Census records his acting income for 36 weeks in 1939 as $3,182.
Prior to making his acting debut at Universal in 1920 he claimed to have been a train engineer, a builder and a draftsman.
Although his name is sometimes listed in reference works for Edison's
The Great Train Robbery (1903), he was a boy living in Louisville, Kentucky, at the time that
film was made in New Jersey, and does not appear in it.