Jameson Thomas

Jameson Thomas, an English film actor, was born on 24 March 1888 at St. George Hanover Square, London, England. He was also known by the name Jamison Thomas. In 1916, he married an English actress, Dorothy Dix. They got divorced in the mid-1920s. He served in the Royal Horse Artillery as a young man and enlisted again in the First World War from 1917 to March 1920 to provide his service. He married publicity agent Evelyn Dudson in 1927. She died in 1931 due to Tuberculosis. Jamison Thomas also died on 10 January 1939 in Sierra Madre, California, U.S., due to Tuberculosis. 

He made his first stage appearance in The Squaw Man as a mixed-race boy. He debuted on-screen in the film Chu Chin Chow, released in 1923. He starred as nightclub owner Valentine Wilmot opposite Anna May Wong in the film Piccadilly in 1929. Piccadilly earned high appreciation in England while a lukewarm response in the U.S. It is considered one of the best melodrama films of the late British silent era. He rests at the Hollywood Forever Cemetry in Hollywood. He has worked for 80-plus films from 1923-39. 

He emigrated to Los Angeles, United States, in 1930. He started to work in Hollywood and made his stage appearance in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney with Bebe Daniels. His first Hollywood screen role was in Extravagance (1930) as Harrison Morell, a high-paid leader in the U.K. He played many minor roles in his career, like King Westley, the fortune-hunting husband/fiance of Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert, formerly known as Émilie "Lily" >> Read More... in Frank Capra's comedy It Happened One Night (1934) which won the Best Picture Oscar Award. He appeared in the Best Picture Oscar Nominees for The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). 

Some of his works include Decameron Nights (1924) as Imliff, The Gold Cure (1925) as Lansing Carter, The Hound of the Deep (1926) as Black Darley, Roses of Picardy (1927) as Georges d'Archeville, The Rising Generation (1928) as Major Kent, The Love of the Brothers Rott (1929) as Robert, Self Defence (1932) as Jeff Bowman, Brief Moment (1933) as Count Armand, Stolen Sweets (1934) as Barrington Thorne, Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) as Anton Racine, House of Secrets (1936) as Coventry, The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937) as George Bradley, Death Goes North (1939) as Robert Druid, alias Herbert Barlow.