Word: baggot
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...there was still another version, which as a small boy I saw in 1912 or 1913. The picture made such an impression on me, resulting in several nightmares, that I still have vivid recollections of it; the name of the actor who portrayed the dual role was King Baggot, who I believe in those days was quite a "big name" in movies...
...TIME cited only the "notable" cine-versions of the Old Horrifier. There have been others, among them the King Baggot version which left its mark on Reader Brace's moppethood. A crawly two-reeler made in 1913, it used the camera dissolve process to meld blue-eyed Mr. Baggot into horrendous Mr. Hyde. Critics, as well as small boys, were scared. Actor Baggot survived his ordeal to make more than 300 pictures, eventually became a director. When last seen on celluloid, he was playing the part of a perfectly normal doorman this year in Come Live With...