Earl Leslie Rengstorff Askam (1891-1940) was an opera singer and stage and film actor, who achieved cult immortality by playing Officer Torch in Flash Gordon (1936). He also played in a dozen low-budget westerns.
Askam was the Pirate at the zeppelin ball in Madam Satan. As was most often the case, he appeared uncredited in The Great Ziegfeld.
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