Carter DeHaven
Birth Name:
Francis O'Callaghan
Birth Place:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profession
Actor, Assistant director, Producer, Writer, Costume designer, Script department
Fast Facts
- Made his screen acting debut in the film "The College Orphan" in 1915
- Started out as a vaudeville actor before beginning his career in film
- Best known as a stage and film actor, director, and writer who played Timothy Dobbs in the 1916 short film series
- Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin, serving as assistant director on "Modern Times" in 1936 and as assistant producer on "The Great Dictator" in 1940
- Displayed his "quick-change" technique in the 1927 short film "Character Studies," in which he "transformed" himself into Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, and Jackie Coogan