- Despite his mean, tough-guy appearance on film, he was reported to be one of the warmest, nicest people in the business.
- Served as Captain of the Military Police during World War II in Washington DC and Virginia.
- Shaven-headed tough guy actor who appeared in many D.W. Griffith films (once notoriously as a Negro villain in The Birth of a Nation (1915), in blackface make-up),but is perhaps now best remembered as a scowling comic villain in several Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy films.
- Recognisable as the vicious skipper in the film 'The Live Ghost' who twisted Stan and Ollie's heads around. He'd previously played a similar role in Moran of the Lady Letty in which he shanghaied Rudolph Valentino.
- Died of a heart attack while watching the fireworks display at the Coliseum in Los Angeles, during the Fourth of July celebration.
- Child: John Huntley Long
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