Josef Swickard: From Cologne to Keystone
Josef Swickard (Peter Josef Schwickerath, 1866-1940) seems like a really unlikely guy to have wound up in in a lot of silent slapstick comedies. Just look at him! The aristocratic looking Cologne native was MADE for melodrama. But comedies need lots of those stuffy type guys for the clowns to swirl around and disarm and […]