The Adventurer Clippings 66/84
Los Angeles Herald, L. A., California, December 21, 1917.
Eric Campbell Killed in Auto Accident
Eric Campbell, heavy comedian in the Chaplin pictures
and widely known in the film colony on the west coast,
was killed instantly in an automobile accident on Thursday,
December 20. Mr. Campbell, who registered at 300
pounds on the scales, appeared in practically all the Mutual-
Chaplin comedies.
Mr. Campbell was driving his car along Wiltshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles, at a rapid gait. The
accident occurred at Wilshire and Vermont avenues, one
of the most dangerous crossings in the city.
Campbell was instantly killed. Gene Crosby, another
occupant of the car, was taken to a hospital
suffering from internal injuries. It is thought that she will
recover.
At the time of his death Mr. Campbell had been
engaged in work in a Mary Pickford picture,
being loaned to the Artcraft company by the Chaplin
management. His second wife, Pearl Gilman
Campbell, and a daughter, Laura Austen, an actress,
bis his first wife, survive him.
(...) Motion Picture News, Jan. 5, 1918
& Additional Details of Campbell Tragedy.
THE news of the death in an automobile accident
of Eric Campbell, the popular member of the
Chaplin Company, was printed in last week‘s issue of the
Moving Picture World. Later word is to the effect
that Miss Gene Crosby, one of the three in the big Campbell
car, was not injured so seriously as was at first
feared. She suffered a sprained arm and other slight injuries.
Harold Schneider, scenario and magazine writer,
was the third occupant of the Campbell machine. Schneider‘s
hurts were of a minor character. W. A. Hollenbeck,
driver of the lighter car into which Campbell‘s machine
crashed, also was badly injured. One of his legs
was broken and his head was considerably scratched.
Campbell, who lived at the Los Angeles
Athletic Club, left a daughter, Eunice, who lives in San
Francisco, had sued for separate maintenance,
but that a reconciliation had been effected.
(...) Moving Picture World, Jan. 12, 1918
„Killed in an automobile accident“
Editorial content. „CAMPBELL‘S WIDOW
TO ATTEND FUNERAL
Death has drawn a veil over the domestic difficulties
of Eric Campbell, film comedian, who was killed
in an automobile accident.“ (...)
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