George E Periolat (1874-1940) was a Broadway who made his first film in New York in 1909, for the Vitagraph Company, but later moved to Hollywood. He was a busy character actor, playing, amongst other roles, the Governor in Douglas Fairbanks’s The Mark of Zorro and Mary Pickford’s father in the Lubitsch-directed Rosita (1923).
Most of Periolat’s appearances in sound picture were uncredited, including his Mr Weill in It’s a Good Life.
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