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| Dick Rush |
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born:
16 August 1882 Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia |
died:
11 March 1956 Los Angeles, California, United States of America (age 73) |
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Australian-born actor with a fairly big film career in Hollywood (at least one unreliable source claims AUSTRIA as his country of birth).
His 1882 Australian Birth Record gives his birth name as "Charles Orr Rush", Orr being his Mother's maiden name. His 1956 LA Death Record gives his birth name as "Charles Orrrichard Rush". Other records don't mention "Richard", only "Charles (Dick)" with "Dick" in parenthesis. In his Citizenship Applications he claims to have arrived in America in 1919 but he is on a ship's passenger list as arriving in San Francisco from Australia in January 1907 as a "warehouse man". By the 1910 Census, he was a "bartender in a saloon". He was a prolific assistant director, director, and actor. In September 1918 in San Francisco, he volunteered for the Imperial Australian Force and after training in LA and Canada as a rifleman, he spent a year in France and was discharged in London in October 1919. He was a veteran of the Boer War where he had served 19 months as a "mounted rifleman" until 1903. He earned 3 decorations for his military service. He married divorcee Geneva Houck Fredericks (1882-1965) in CA in June 1932: his first and her third. They had no children. Dick became a US Citizen in 1949. *Regarding his height: "official" sources vary from 5'11½" - 6'0½". |
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Real name: Charles Orr Rush Height: 6'0"* [see above] |
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography. |
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Acknowledgements & sources: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1778&h=2933437&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=aMx22&_phstart=successSource (1882 AUS Birth https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7949&h=724541&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=9177 (1907 arrive SFO https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7884&h=1596325&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=aMx24&_phstart=successSource (1910 C SFO https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQL-196 (1920 C LA actor; motion pictures https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6224&h=90102868&ssrc=pt&tid=6663623&pid=412111062131&usePUB=true (1930 C LA; Actor, MP https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CD-KVM (1940 C LA;actor, MP; wf Geneva http://www.archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew00moti_20#page/n358/mode/1up/search/%22dick+rush%22 (1918 vet Boer War http://www.archive.org/stream/filmdailyvolume556newy#page/545/mode/1up/search/%22dick+rush%22 (1918 military training LA & Canada http://www.archive.org/stream/moviwor3738chal#page/n691/mode/1up/search/%22dick+rush%22 (1918 patriotism https://archive.org/stream/motrestu00moti#page/206/mode/1up/search/HOLDER (1918 Studio Directory bio https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=6482&h=19532716&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=1778 (1918 US Draft Card https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=60864&h=306247&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60901 (1918 SFO enlists AUS Army https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60864&h=306247&ssrc=pt&tid=11305365&pid=350143045666&usePUB=true (1919 AUS mil record https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1193&h=4266506&ssrc=pt&tid=11305365&pid=350143045666&usePUB=true (1921 Decl of Intent https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8FD-H6J (1932 marriage to Geneva Fredericks https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1002&h=13750800&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=6482 (1942 WWII Draft Card https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=3998&h=1963326&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=5180 (1949 Naturalization Petition https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPC4-DDR (1956 CA Death Index; "Charles Orrrichard Rush") Jim Jarvis (research and information) This page was last updated on: 11 June 2019 |
