William Burr McIntosh (1862-1942) was a man of many parts: writer, publisher, photographer, entrepreneur. And silent film actor.
McIntosh had already achieved success publishing The Burr McIntosh Monthly, an early example of the pinup magazine, when he turned to screen acting. He starred in a series of 14 two-reel shorts playing J Rufus Wallingford, a con man.
The high point of McIntosh’s acting career was his performance as Lillian Gish’s cruel father in D W Griffith’s Way Down East (1920).
McIntosh’s sole outing in an MGM musical was as Count Peter in the lost film, The Rogue Song.
