The Adventurer Clippings 75/84
Photoplay, New York, March 1918.
The late Eric Campbell with Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance
in a scene from „The Adventurer.“
(...) The Adventurer Scene, Photoplay, March 1918
& Eric Campbell Film Comedian Killed on Coast
Chaplin Aid Meets Death
in Auto Accident at Los Angeles
(...) Exhibitors‘ Herald, Chicago, Jan. 5, 1918
„Buried under his machine“
Editorial content. „Eric Campbell, well-known as the
,big fellow´ in the Chaplin comedies, was killed
in an automobile collision in Los Angeles, in December.
Jean Croby, an actress, and Harold Schneider,
a scenario writer, who were in Campbell‘s car, were injured;
and the driver of the other car suffered a broken leg.
He assisted however, in extricating Campbell‘s body, which
was buried under his machine. Campbell leaves
a wife in San Francisco.“
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