Norman Kerry (June 16, 1894 – January 12, 1956) was an American actor whose career spanned over twenty-five years in the motion picture industry beginning in the silent era at the end of World War I.
Was good friends with taxi dancer Rodolfo Guglielmi (Rudolph Valentino).
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Played right tackle on the Hempstead High School football team in Long Island, New York.
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Joined the French Foreign Legion in the 1930's, returning to the U.S. after Germany's invasion of France in 1940.
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Did not have a particularly good speaking voice which limited his career during the sound era.
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Became a theatrical agent and sometime around 1916 met Rudolph Valentino. The two became fast friends. Kerry is said to have introduced Valentino to dancer Bonnie Glass who became Valentino's partner. Valentino returned the favor by encouraging Kerry to try acting. Later the two friends supported one another through the early stages of their careers. Kerry even helped Valentino financially at this time. They appeared in a film together Passion's Playground (1920).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Tanks a Million
1941
Major
Phantom of Santa Fe
1936
Miguel 'Mike' Morago, aka The Hawk
Air Eagles
1931
Otto Schumann
Bachelor Apartment
1931
Lee Graham
Ex-Flame
1930
Beaumont Winthrop
The Prince of Hearts
1929
Prince Casimir
The Woman I Love
1929
Kenneth Hamilton
Trial Marriage
1929
Oliver Mowbray
Man, Woman and Wife
1929
Rance Rogers / Ralph Brandon
The Bondman
1929
Jason
The Woman from Moscow
1928
Loris Ipanoff
The Foreign Legion
1928
Richard Farquhar
The Irresistible Lover
1927
J. Harrison Gray
Body and Soul
1927
Ruffo
Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927
Von Vigilatti
The Unknown
1927
Malabar
Annie Laurie
1927
Ian Macdonald
The Claw
1927
Maurice Stair
The Love Thief
1926
Prince Boris Alexander Emanuel Augustus
Mademoiselle Modiste
1926
Etienne
The Barrier
1926
Meade Burrell
Under Western Skies
1926
Robert Erskine
Lorraine of the Lions
1925
Don Mackay
Fifth Avenue Models
1925
Francis Doran
The Phantom of the Opera
1925
Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
The Price of Pleasure
1925
Garry Schuyler
So This Is Marriage?
1924
Butterfly
1924
Konrad Kronski
Between Friends
1924
Jack Greylock
Cytherea
1924
Peyton Morris
True As Steel
1924
Harry Boutelle
Daring Youth
1924
John J. Campbell
The Shadow of the East
1924
Said
The Satin Girl
1923
Dr. Richard Taunton
The Thrill Chaser
1923
Cameo appearance
The Acquittal
1923
Robert Armstrong
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923/I
Phoebus de Chateaupers
Merry-Go-Round
1923
Count Franz Maximilian Von Hohenegg
Is Money Everything?
1923
John Brand
Brothers Under the Skin
1922
Thomas Kirtland
Till We Meet Again
1922
Robert Carter
The Man from Home
1922
Prince Kinsillo
Find the Woman
1922
Marc Weber
Three Live Ghosts
1922
Billy Foster
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
1921
'Blackie' Daw
Little Italy
1921
Antonio Tumullo
The Wild Goose
1921
Ogden Fenn
Proxies
1921
Peter Mendoza
Buried Treasure
1921
Dr. John Grant
A Splendid Hazard
1920
John Fitzgerald
Passion's Playground
1920
Prince Vanno Della Robbia
Soldiers of Fortune
1919
Robert Clay
The Dark Star
1919
Jim Neeland
Virtuous Sinners
1919
Hamilton Jones
Getting Mary Married
1919
James Winthrop, Jr.
Toton the Apache
1919
David Lane
The Talk of the Town
1918
Good Night, Paul
1918
Richard Landers
Rose o' Paradise
1918
Theodore King
Up the Road with Sallie
1918
Joshua Cabot II, aka Smith Jones
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
1918
Gordon Phillips
The Little Princess
1917
Capt. Richard Crewe
The Little American
1917
Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
The Black Butterfly
1916
Vladimir (as Norman Kaiser)
Manhattan Madness
1916
Minor Role (uncredited)
Vanity
1916
Crandell (as Norman Kaiser)
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Voice of Hollywood No. 6
1930
Short
Himself, Guest Host
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
Short
Himself - Norman Kerry
The City of Stars
1924
Short
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness
2007
TV Series documentary
Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
Video documentary
Himself
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
1932
Leading Man in Projected Film
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Motion Picture
On 8 February 1960. At 6724 Hollywood Blvd.
Known for movies
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) as Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
The Unknown (1927) as Malabar
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) as Phoebus de Chateaupers
Merry-Go-Round (1923) as Count Franz Maximilian Von Hohenegg
$1.6 Million
