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John St. Polis

Born 1873-11-24

Died 1946-10-08

📍 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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John M. St. Polis (November 24, 1873 – October 8, 1946) was an American actor.

St. Polis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before starting his film career, he made a name for himself on the Broadway stage, most notably in the role of Frederik in the original production of The Return of Peter Grimm (1911–12) and the play's revival in 1921, both performed at the Belasco Theatre.

He appeared in 126 films between 1914 and 1943. In all of his early roles, the actor is billed as John Sainpolis. His best-known performances are as Etienne Laurier in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and as Comte Phillipe de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

St. Polis successfully made the transition from silent cinema to "talkies" with one of his most praised performances as Dr. John M. Besant, the father of Norma Besant (played by Mary Pickford) in Coquette (1929).

Filmography 106

as Professor (uncredited)

Rocky Mountain Rangers

as Joseph Manners

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

as Minor Role (uncredited)

They Shall Have Music

Boys' Reformatory

as Superintendent Keene

Mr. Wong, Detective

The Mysterious Rider

International Crime

as Roger Morton

The Shadow Strikes

as Caleb Delthern

as Chandler Elliott

Below the Deadline

Three on the Trail

as Sheriff Sam Corwin

Call of the Prairie

A Night at the Opera

as Opera Conductor (uncredited)

The Lady in Scarlet

as Jerome T. Shelby

Death from a Distance

as Prof. Trowbridge

The President Vanishes

as Attorney General Davis (uncredited)

as Defense attorney

Notorious But Nice

as John J. Martin

as French Police Investigator (uncredited)

King of the Arena

The World Gone Mad

as Grover Cromwell

as Colonel Charles Ormsby

as Banker (uncredited)

Call Her Savage

as Doctor Consoling Nasa (Uncredited)

The Gambling Sex

If I Had a Million

as Glidden Associate (uncredited)

as Dr. McDonald

Symphony of Six Million

as Dr. Schifflen

as John Nichols

Alias the Doctor

as Dr. Niergardt

as U.S. Ambassador

The Yellow Ticket

as Passport Official at Airport

The Gay Diplomat

Their Mad Moment

as Hotel Manager

as Serafin, Arturo's Butler

as Madeleine's Father

as Dr. Mark Wyndram

as Judge Advocate (as John M. St. Polis)

The Criminal Code

as Dr. Rinewulf

Captain Thunder

as The Imam Mahmud

A Devil with Women

The Three Sisters

In the Next Room

as Philip Vantine

as John Rountree

as Andrew Stratton

as Dr. John M. Besant

Marriage by Contract

The Power of Silence

as Defense Attorney

as Surgeon (uncredited)

Too Many Crooks

as Erastus Mason

as Comte de Maigny

The Greater Glory

as Prof. Leopold Eberhardt (as John Sainpolis)

as Count Filippo Sturani

Paint and Powder

as Mark Kelsey (as John Sainpolis)

The Phantom of the Opera

as Comte Philip de Chagny

The Dixie Handicap

Folly of Vanity

as Ridgeway (modern sequence)

The Rose of Paris

as André du Vallois

In Every Woman's Life

as Dr. Philip Logan

as Rossland (as John Sainpolis)

Those Who Dance

Mademoiselle Midnight

as Colonel de Gontran (Prologue)

as Hiram Burbeck

as Milo Bleech (as John Sainpolis)

A Prince of a King

The Social Code

as Defense Attorney

Three Wise Fools

as John Crawshay

as Self - Celebrity Actor in Commissary

as Skinner (as John Sainpolis)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

as Etienne Laurier

The Great Lover

as Jeffrey Bretton

Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

Laughing Bill Hyde

as Black Jack Burg

The Mark of Cain

The Public Defender

as David Moulton

The Love That Lives

as Harvey Brooks

The Mystic Hour

The Fortunes of Fifi

The World Against Him

as Dr. Hamilton Welsh

The Social Highwayman

The Yellow Passport

as Dr. Hugh Ellis

Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors