Fred R. Stanton

Fred R. Stanton, born Frederick R. Schwerd in 1881, was an American actor who worked in both theater and film. He performed on Broadway between 1911 and 1925, with credits including the musical Sally, Irene and Mary and The Strugglers. He died on May 27, 1925, in Los Angeles from stomach cancer.

Stanton built a substantial screen career across the silent film era, accumulating roles in numerous productions throughout the 1910s and 1920s. His film appearances include Daredevil Kate (1916), in which he played Bently, and The Great Secret (1917), where he portrayed a character billed as The Great Master. He reprised that role in the 1920 serial adaptation of The Great Secret. Other credits from that period include De Luxe Annie (1918) as Detective Cronin, The Great Victory (1919) as Sergeant Gross, and The Fighting Chance (1920) as Beverly Plank.

Among his 1920 film work, Stanton appeared in The Spirit of Good as Neal Bradford, Jenny Be Good as Aaron Shuttles, and The Silver Horde as Big George Bolt. The following year he played a Ranch Foreman in Her Sturdy Oak, and in 1922 he took on the role of Ivan Petroff in the serial Perils of the Yukon, as well as appearing in The Fire Bride and The Son of the Wolf. In the latter film, he portrayed a Native American character and performed a knife fight scene opposite the film's star.

His 1923 screen appearances included Little Church Around the Corner as The Sheriff, A Million to Burn as Langden, Canyon of the Fools as Jim Harper and Polhill, Trifling with Honor as Lute Clotz, and Danger Ahead. Stanton's final film credits came in 1924 with When a Man's a Man, in which he played Nick Cambert, and Find Your Man, in which he appeared as a sheriff.