Clarence Forrest Burton (1882-1933) started working as a child in a family vaudeville act. By his 20s he was acting in plays and musicals, and moved into screen acting in 1912, making regular appearances in Cecil B DeMille pictures. His final role was in DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross (1932). It was noted in the press at the time of his death that he had previously died more than 100 times in films.
Burton played, uncredited, the cop who chases the Duncan Sisters at the start of MGM’s It’s a Great Life, and was also in They Learned About Women.
