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Will Rogers Snapshot

First Name

Will

Last Name

Rogers

Height

Build

Average

Place of Birth

Oologah, Indian Territory, Oklahoma

Star Sign

Scorpio

Date of Death

15 August 1935

Place of Death

Barrow, Alaska Territory

Cause of Death

plane crash

Ethnicity

Multiracial

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Date of Birth

04/11/1879

Hair Color

Grey

Wikipedia Text

William "Will" Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 � August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.

Couple Profile

World-famous, widely popular American humorist of the vaudeville stage and of silent and sound films, Will Rogers graduated from military school, but his first real job was in the livestock business in Argentina, of all places. He transported pack animals across the South Atlantic from Buenos Aires to South Africa for use in the Boer War (1899-1902). He stayed in Johannesburg for a short while, appearing there in Wild West shows where he drew upon his expertise with horse and lasso. Returning to America, he brought his talents to vaudeville and by 1917 was a Ziegfeld Follies star. Over the years he gradually blended into his act his unique style of topical, iconoclastic humor, in which he speared the efforts of the powerful to trample the rights of the common man, while twirling his lariat and perhaps chewing on a blade of straw. Although appearing in many silents, he reached his motion-picture zenith with the arrival of sound. Now mass audiences could hear his rural twang as he delivered his homespun philosophy on behalf of Everyman. The appeal and weight of his words carried such weight with the average citizen that he was even nominated for governor of Oklahoma (which he declined).

Full Name at Birth

William Penn Adair Rogers

Count - Awards

Father

Clement Vann Rogers

Mother

Mary America Schrimsher

Sister

Sallie Clementine Rogers, Maude Ethel Rogers, Mary Rogers

Friend

Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Irene Rich, Hattie McDaniel

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