John R. Cumpson

American actor (1867–1913)

John R. Cumpson was an American stage and film actor. In 1895 he performed on Broadway as Tam Duncan Faa in Sidney R. Ellis's Bonnie Scotland. He returned to Broadway in Up York State in 1901. With regard to his screen career, Cumpson appeared in at least 124 films between 1905 and 1912. A 1910 newspaper item described him as "the famous Swedish dialect comedian."

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Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 16 films (1908–1910) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 1 other record (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲	Title	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
1908	A SMOKED HUSBAND	American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.	4:00	16mm	B&W	silent
1908	A Smoked husband	D. W. Griffith	8 min		B&W
1908	The Christmas burglars	D. W. Griffith			B&W
1909	A fool's revenge	D. W. Griffith	378	16mm	B&W	silent
1909	A Strange Meeting ▶	D. W. Griffith	11 min		B&W
1909	In old Kentucky	D. W. Griffith	11 min		B&W
1909	Jones and his new neighbors.	D. W. Griffith	173	16mm	B&W	silent
1909	The Cricket on the hearth	D. W. Griffith	10 min		B&W
1909	The Girls and daddy	D. W. Griffith			B&W
1909	The Lonely Villa	D. W. Griffith	19		B&W
1909	The Lonely villa	D. W. Griffith	8 min		B&W
1909	The Violin maker of Cremona	D. W. Griffith	10 min		B&W
1909	The Voice of the Violin ▶	Arthur V. Johnson; Marion Leonard; Frank Powell; David Miles; D.W. Griffith	16 min		B&W
1909	They would elope	D. W. Griffith	6 min		B&W
1909	WHAT DRINK DID	D. W. Griffith	370	16mm	B&W
1910	The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph ▶	Marc McDermott; Ethel Jewett; John R. Cumpson			B&W