Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett, born Michael Sinnott (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960)During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy". His short Wrestling Swordfish was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937. Sennett made a reasonably smooth transition to sound films, releasing them through Earle Hammons's Educational Pictures. Sennett occasionally experimented with color. Plus, he was the first to get a talkie short subject on the market in 1928. In 1932, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth (with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard). Sennett also won an Academy Award in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish also in 1932. Sennett often clung to outmoded techniques, making his early-1930s films seem dated and quaint. His last work, in 1935, was as a producer-director for Educational Pictures; in which he directed Buster Keaton in The Timid Young Man and Joan Davis in Way Up Thar. Mack Sennett died on November 5, 1960 from lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California, aged 80. He is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, CA.
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