Clarence Blakiston

Clarence Blakiston born in Biggleswick in 1864, highly well-known classical, melodrama and comedy theatre star from the 1880's. later appeared as a aristocratic gentleman in few silent film roles first in a short drama from the 'Tense Moment from Great Plays' film series starring Sybil Thorndike for the Master (BEF) Film Company in 1922, later worked for the British Gaumont Film Company and then the B&C Film Company. minor roles in few talkies in the mid 1930's. Dead in 1943 age 79.