Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

American stage and motion picture actor

* November 4, 1879 Oologah, Indian Territory, USA. [now Oklahoma]
 as William Penn Adair Rogers
 August 15, 1935 near Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska, USA



Vintage magazines

Boy's Cinema, nr. 3, 27 December 1919
Boy's Cinema, nr. 10, 14 February 1920
Boy's Cinema, nr. 1, 13 December 1919

Boy's Cinema, nr. 3, 27 December 1919
Boy's Cinema, nr. 8, 31 January 1920
Boy's Cinema, nr. 10, 14 February 1920

Boy's Cinema, nr. 10, 14 February 1920
Boy's Cinema, nr. 10, 14 February 1920
Boy's Cinema, nr. 10, 14 February 1920


Books by Will Rogers

Will Rogers
The Illiterate Digest
New York, 1924

Books on Will Rogers

Steven K. Gragert and M. Jane Johansson (editors) The Papers of Will Rogers Steven K. Gragert and M. Jane Johansson (editors)
The Papers of Will Rogers, Volume V. The Final Years, August 1928-august 1935
2006

Steven K. Gragert and M. Jane Johansson (editors) The Papers of Will Rogers Steven K. Gragert and M. Jane Johansson (editors)
The Papers of Will Rogers, Volume Four: From Broadway to the National Stage, September 1915-July 1928
2005

Bill Yagoda
Will Rogers
New York, 1994

Books with substantial mentioning of Will Rogers

Foreword by John-Michael Howson Cut! Foreword by John-Michael Howson
Cut!, Hollywood murders, accidents, and other tragedies
Willoughby, Australia, 2005

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard with Gregory W. Mank and Charles Hoyt
The Funsters
New Rochelle, New York, 1979

Ray Stuart (ed.) Immortals of the Screen Ray Stuart (ed.)
Immortals of the Screen
New York, 1965

Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver (eds.) Who's Who on the Screen Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver (eds.)
Who's Who on the Screen
New York City, 1920

Books with an entry on Will Rogers

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Glenn Mitchell A-Z of Silent Film Comedy Glenn Mitchell
A-Z of Silent Film Comedy, An Illustrated Companion
London, 1998

Anthony Slide (ed.) Selected Vaudeville Criticism Anthony Slide (ed.)
Selected Vaudeville Criticism
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1988

Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors) Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors)
Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs, 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950
New York, 1981

Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Joe Franklin
Encyclopedia of Comedians
Secaucus, N.J., 1979

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Charles Donald Fox Mirrors of Hollywood Charles Donald Fox
Mirrors of Hollywood, with brief biographies of favorite film folk
New York, 1925

Books with photograph(s) of Will Rogers

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978

Mary Dawn Earley
Stars of the Twenties, Observed by James Abbe
New York, 1975

Mary Dawn Earley
Stars of the Twenties, Observed by James Abbe
New York, 1975