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| Tom Figee |
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born:
17 February 1881 Haarlem, Holland, Netherlands |
died:
06 August 1941 Wildwood Sanatorium, Newhall (uninc), Los Angeles County, California, United States of America (tuberculosis, age 60) |
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Dutch-born actor. At the age of 19 he immigrated from Holland to the US (Woodbridge, New Jersey). Later, he moved to Canada (1906) as a laborer and gained work as a Canadian Mountie (police)
for about 3 years and moved to Oregon and worked as a mounted policeman. In Los Angeles in late 1917 he volunteered for the WWI Royal Canadian Expeditionary Force as an actor/linguist speaking 5 languages. His Death Certificate says he had pulmonary tuberculosis for 4 years and 7 months. He spent the final 2 years of his life at the Wildwood Sanatorium. One Ancestry.com researcher has Tom born in Alaska as "Thomas Marie Fejes" without citing a source. The link below has a photo of the actual Dutch birth certificate which says "Thomas Figee". |
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Real name: Thomas Figee Height: 5'11½" |
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography. |
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