The Son of Wallingford is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film directed by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Josephine Chester and starring Wilfrid North, Tom Gallery and Antrim Short. It is based on George Chester's novel The Son of Wallingford about a confidence trickster, itself inspired by his Cosmopolitan articles and an earlier hit play Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. It was shot at Vitagraph's Flatbush Studios in Brooklyn. It was released by Vitagraph a couple of months before a Paramount Pictures version of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.
Cast
Wilfrid North as J. Rufus Wallingford
Tom Gallery as Jimmy Wallkingford
George Webb as Blackie Daw
Antrim Short as 'Toad' Edward Jessup
Van Dyke Brooke as Henry Beegoode
Sidney D'Albrook as Bertram Beegoode
Andrew Arbuckle as Talbot Curtis
Bobbie Mack as O.O. Jones
Walter Rodgers as 'Petrograd' Pete
Priscilla Bonner as Mary Curtis
Florence Hart as Mrs. Fannie Wallingford
Lila Leslie as Bonnie Daw
Margaret Cullington as Coline Beegoode
Preservation
The film is lost.
References
Bibliography
Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998. Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.