biography
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Sennett, Mack
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originally Michael or Mikall Sinnott
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1960)
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| biography:
| Film director, producer, and actor, born in Richmond, Quebec, SE Canada. He worked as a comic in burlesque companies, and from 1908 in silent films. He later formed his own company, and made hundreds of shorts, establishing a whole generation of players and a tradition of knockabout slapstick under the name of Keystone Komics (1912) and later the Sennett Bathing Beauties (1920). He was given a special Academy Award in 1937 for his long contribution to film comedy. |
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