Actor, stage, film and lawyer. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and went to school in Glasgow, Scotland, before attending law school in Boston. At the age of 21, he was admitted to the bar in Texarkana, Texas. After only a year as a lawyer, he chose to pursue acting. On Christmas Day 1888, he made his first stage appearance with the Baker's company in "The Emigrant" in Shreveport, Louisiana. He quickly established himself as a good performer with a solid reputation. Charles Frohman promoted him in the mid-1890s, and he was cast in two seasons of "Men and Woman" and "The Girl I Left Behind Me." He appeared on Broadway in 20 productions between 1899 and 1924, including "Why Smith Left Home" (1899 to 1900), "Under Two Flags" (1901), "The County Chairman" (1903), "The Round Up" (1907), "The Soul Kiss" (1908), and "In the Night Watch" (1921). When he played the sheriff in 1907's "The Round-Up," he made the line "Nobody loves a fat man" famous. People would remember him for that famous phrase for the next twenty years. As a well-known Broadway performer, he made his silent film debut in 1914 with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company in "The County Chairman," in which he had earlier appeared in the 1903 play. From 1914 until 1926, he appeared in 17 more silent films, including "The Reform Candidate" (1915), "Fighting Mad" (1919), and "Broadway Broke" (1923). "The Thoroughbred" (1925), and "The Gilded Highway" (1926). In 1919, he started the San Antonio Moving Pictures Corporation in San Antonio. A group of Dallas businessmen provided financial backing. The company produced four films, "Mr. Bingle," "Mr. Potter of Texas," "Welcome to Our City," and "Squire Phin," and all four films were released in 1922 before the company folded the same year. In all four films, he played the lead role. After his final picture in 1926, he retired from acting due to his failing health.