Early in his career Walter Long was married to
Luray Huntley, an actress for
D.W. Griffith's stock company.
Huntley and Long performed together in several of Griffith's films,
including
Traffic in Souls (1913),
Let Katie Do It (1916), and
Intolerance (1916).
They remained married until her death in 1919 at the age of 28 as a result of the
Spanish influenza epidemic.
Despite his mean, tough-guy appearance on film, he was reported to be one of the warmest, nicest people in the business.
Served as Captain of the Military Police during World War II in
Washington DC and Virginia.
Shaven-headed tough guy actor who appeared in many D.W. Griffith films (once
notoriously as a Negro villain in The Birth of a Nation (1915), in blackface make-up),but is
perhaps now best remembered as a scowling comic villain in several
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy films.
Died of a heart attack while watching the fireworks display at the Coliseum in Los Angeles, during the Fourth of July celebration.
Recognisable as the vicious skipper in the film 'The Live Ghost' who twisted Stan and Ollie's heads around. He'd previously played a similar role in Moran of the Lady Letty in which he shanghaied Rudolph Valentino.