Raoul Walsh started out as an actor who also directed. He played John Wilkes Booth in
DW Griffith's
Birth of the Nation and the Marine in his own
Sadie Thompson, opposite Gloria Swanson. After an auto accident in which a rabbit hit his windshield, he lost an eye and gave up acting. He was to have played the Cisco Kid in
In Old Arizona. Warner Baxter got the part in the early talkie western. Walsh went on to direct many talkies, including
The Roaring Twenties,
High Sierra, and
White Heat.
He left hand, foot, and eye patch prints in the forecourt of
Grauman's Chinese on 14-November-1930.
DSCN4141. I took this on 18-July-2009.
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