Mack Sennett

Michael Sinnott, known as Mack Sennett, was born in Quebec in 1880. He sang in choruses and burlesque shows in New York, joined Biograph in 1908 and learned the trade there under Griffith. In 1912 he founded the Keystone studios with Kessel and Bauman, and over some twenty years wrote, directed, produced or acted in more than a thousand films there, often shot on an improvised outline. Nearly ruined in 1929, he went bankrupt in 1933, and died in Woodland Hills, California, in 1960.

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• CinemaTillie's Punctured RomanceMack Sennett · 1914Cinema