An American actor and director, born on November 30, 1874, in Rochelle, Illinois, USA, as Lloyd Chauncey Ingraham. He directed American westerns, then popular melodramas, during the twenties. He worked exclusively in Hollywood as an actor, often in paternal roles after sound was introduced in films, until his retirement in 1950. He is known for Intolerance (1916), At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922), and Don Mike (1927). He was married to Maude May Plopper, with whom he had two children. He died of pneumonia at the age of 81 on April 4, 1956, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.