Harry Burns (filmmaker)
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Harry Burns was a vaudeville performer, boxing referee, actor, assistant director, animal-picture director and producer, and Hollywood magazine publisher. Burns was married to the actress Dorothy Vern
Harry Burns of Hollywood, California c. 1920
Curley Stecker
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Algernon Maltby "Curley" Stecker was an early Hollywood animal trainer, Universal City Zoo superintendent, animal-film producer, and occasional actor-stuntman.
Los Angeles Times, 1924
"Elephant in lake with Curley Stecker," Big Otto's Trained Wild Animals, Appalachian Exposition (1910)
Part of a cartoon by Wyn Barden about Universal City, published in the Los Angeles Herald in August 1919
A lion leaps on Curley Stecker's back for a scene in Harry McRae's 1917 His Master's Wife