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Frank Jaquet
Jaquet in Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
Born
Frank Garnier Jaquet

(1885-03-16)March 16, 1885
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedMay 11, 1958(1958-05-11) (aged 73)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
OccupationActor
Years active1934–1955

Frank Garnier Jaquet (March 16, 1885 – May 11, 1958) was an American actor known for playing supporting roles with his career extended from 1934 to the mid-1950s.[1]

Biography

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Jaquet's father, Jules Jaquet, was the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He might have been expected to follow in that career path, but an event in 1902 changed his mind. Jaquet was working backstage on a People's Stock Company production in Milwaukee when an actor became sick and he was prompted to take a small part on stage. He said, "That turned my mind from newspapers forever to the stage".[2] He acted with that company for several years before he traveled around the United States with a touring company in 1906-1907. He went on to act with other stock companies in addition to performing in vaudeville and with a medicine show.[2]

In 1925, Jaquet was part of the Summer stock cast at the Elitch Theatre.

Jaquet's Broadway credits included When in Rome (1934), Alley Cat (1934), Ladies' Money (1934), Battleship Gertie (1935), Potash and Perlmutter (1935), Mulatto (1935), Iron Men (1936), Chalked Out (1937), and The Red Mill (1945).[3]

In 1934, at age forty-nine, Jaquet made his film debut in the short War Is a Racket. Over the next twenty years, he appeared in over one hundred and forty films and TV episodes.[1]

Personal life and death

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Jaquet married Flo Garrison in Greenville, Georgia, in 1910. They had a son the next year, and Jaquet later learned that she had obtained a divorce. He said that she "wrote the boy was no more".[4] In 1920 Jaquet married Lizibeth Gehrke in Ogden, Utah. Garrison died in an automobile accident in 1927. After both the son and the father thought the other was dead for more than two decades, the two were reunited on March 23, 1937, in New York. The catalyst for the meeting was H. Edward Haynes, head of a construction company in New York, who contacted the father by letter offering to provide the son's address. Haynes had married Garrison after her divorce from Jaquet, but he had been separated from his stepson almost 15 years. They had recently reunited, which led Haynes to initiate contact with Jaquet. The son, Robert, by that time was married and had a 14-month-old daughter.[4]

Jaquet died on May 11, 1958, in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 73. He is interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[5]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Frank Jaquet". AllMovie. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "When star in Bacon comedy was ill, Jaquet made debut". Rockford Daily Republic. April 6, 1922. p. 5. Retrieved May 19, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Frank Jaquet". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2026.
  4. ^ a b "Veteran actor is reunited with son". The Roanoke Times. Associated Press. March 24, 1937. p. 8. Retrieved May 19, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Resting Places: The Burial Places of 14,000 Famous Persons, by Scott Wilson
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