An American actor and producer, born in Wappingers Falls, New York, USA, as John Joseph Francis Mulhall to an Irish father and a Scottish mother. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his film work. He married 3 times and had one child. Among his most important works are Dark Streets (1929), The Three Musketeers (1933), Buck Rogers (1939), and The Social Buccaneer (1923). Jack Mulhall worked in the silent era of cinema, then the sound era, and was prolific. He also participated in television programs and worked for the Screen Actors Guild. He started appearing in vaudeville shows at the age of 14. He presented more than 150 silent short films, but he was financially destroyed in the Great Depression. He continued to work in talkies prolifically until the late fifties. He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA, on June 1, 1979, of congestive heart failure at the age of 91.