[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
André Louis Ernest Alexandre Duval was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, France on August 24, 1880. Duval left France in 1923 and sailed to Honolulu, Hawaii to escape criminal charges for theft of a sable coat and for writing bad checks. He then immigrated to the US and Seattle, Washington and from there to Hollywood, where he entered the film industry as an extra in 1925 under the stage name André Cheron, which came from his mother's maiden name, Marie Chéron. He made his film debut in Arthur Rosson's silent melodrama, “The Fighting Demon”, starring Richard Talmadge.
André Chéron would go on to appear in 117 films in a sixteen-year time period from 1925 to his final appearance as a French chef in 1941’s “Louisiana Purchase” starring Bob Hope. A bit of trivia Chéron was the French voice of both Grumpy and Humbert the huntsman in the French version of 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
Chéron married Charleen Lippincott on February 11, 1931, who was 29 years younger than him. He died on January 26, 1952, at the age of 72 in San Francisco, California.
Chéron appeared in only one Euro-western the U.S. made French version of “Lopez, le bandit” (The Bad Man) in 1930.
CHERON André (aka André Chéron)
(André Louis Ernest Alexandre Duval) [8/24/1880, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, France –
1/26/1952, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.] – film actor, son of
restauranteur Alexandre Duval [1844-1922] married to Charleen E. Lippincott
[1910-19??] (1931-19??).
The Bad Man – 1930
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