The Son of Wallingford

The Son of Wallingford
Directed by	George Randolph Chester Lillian Josephine Chester
Written by	George Randolph Chester Lillian Josephine Chester
Starring	Wilfrid North Tom Gallery Antrim Short
Cinematography	W. Steve Smith Jr.
Production company	Vitagraph Company of America
Distributed by	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	October 9, 1921 (1921-10-09)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

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The Son of Wallingford is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film directed by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Josephine Chester and starring Wilfrid North, Tom Gallery and Antrim Short. It is based on George Chester's novel The Son of Wallingford about a confidence trickster, itself inspired by his Cosmopolitan articles and an earlier hit play Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. It was shot at Vitagraph's Flatbush Studios in Brooklyn. It was released by Vitagraph a couple of months before a Paramount Pictures version of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.

Cast

• Wilfrid North as J. Rufus Wallingford
• Tom Gallery as Jimmy Wallkingford
• George Webb as Blackie Daw
• Antrim Short as 'Toad' Edward Jessup
• Van Dyke Brooke as Henry Beegoode
• Sidney D'Albrook as Bertram Beegoode
• Andrew Arbuckle as Talbot Curtis
• Bobbie Mack as O.O. Jones
• Walter Rodgers as 'Petrograd' Pete
• Priscilla Bonner as Mary Curtis
• Florence Hart as Mrs. Fannie Wallingford
• Lila Leslie as Bonnie Daw
• Margaret Cullington as Coline Beegoode

Preservation

The film is lost.

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• The Son of Wallingford at IMDb
• allmovie.com