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Birth Name: William Elmer Booth
Born: 9 December 1882 Died: 16 June 1915
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Elmer Booth was an US-American actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California and was the elder brother of film editor Margaret Booth.
Elmer began acting in touring stock companies as a teenager. Between 1910 and 1915 he starred in 40 movies; one of those was D. W. Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), cited by many film experts as the first gangster movie. Playing The Snapper Kid, a Manhattan street tough engaged in a turf war on the Lower East Side, Booth interpreted the gangster as a cocky, enterprising antihero, far different from the standard teeth-gnashing movie bad guys of the time. His groundbreaking performance
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1. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
| Rating: | 40 Watched |
2. An Unseen Enemy (1912)
| Rating: | 22 Watched |
3. The Painted Lady (1912)
| Rating: | 14 Watched |
4. Friends (1912)
| Rating: | 8 Watched |
5. The Narrow Road (2009)
| Rating: | 4 Watched |
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