Actor. He is remembered as an American actor during the silent film era with roles in “Black Lightning” and “Travelin' Fast” in 1924 and “Clothes Make the Pirate” in 1925, which is a lost film. In “Travelin' Fast,” which was a western, his character had a name, but in the other two films, he had unnamed bit parts. He was the son of German immigrants. As the owner of Pringles Stock Productions, he traveled from state to state, starting in New York then to Chicago, on to Utah in 1899, in Colorado in 1900 with wife Ida and son Cecil, to Montreal in Canada, and he eventually settled in California by the early 1920s. His wife, an actor, was billed as “Ida Adair,” and the couple soon divorced. His son, Cecil Pringle, later took a stepfather's surname and by 1915, as John Gilbert, was on his way to becoming a successful actor. At one point, Pringle was an art director in the theater and did comic routines on stage. He died at the California Lutheran Hospital following a lingering illness, and his obituary was published in the New York Times. His burial site is unmarked.
Actor. He is remembered as an American actor during the silent film era with roles in “Black Lightning” and “Travelin' Fast” in 1924 and “Clothes Make the Pirate” in 1925, which is a lost film. In “Travelin' Fast,” which was a western, his character had a name, but in the other two films, he had unnamed bit parts. He was the son of German immigrants. As the owner of Pringles Stock Productions, he traveled from state to state, starting in New York then to Chicago, on to Utah in 1899, in Colorado in 1900 with wife Ida and son Cecil, to Montreal in Canada, and he eventually settled in California by the early 1920s. His wife, an actor, was billed as “Ida Adair,” and the couple soon divorced. His son, Cecil Pringle, later took a stepfather's surname and by 1915, as John Gilbert, was on his way to becoming a successful actor. At one point, Pringle was an art director in the theater and did comic routines on stage. He died at the California Lutheran Hospital following a lingering illness, and his obituary was published in the New York Times. His burial site is unmarked.
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