page_title: George Siegmann
section_title: Personal life and death
hierarchical_section_title: George Siegmann / Personal life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Left to right: Léon Bary, Eugene Pallette, Douglas Fairbanks, and George Siegmann in the American film The Three Musketeers (1921) - publicity still
context_page_description: George A. Siegmann was an American actor and film director in the silent film era. His work includes roles in notable productions such as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, The Three Musketeers, Oliver Twist, The Cat and the Canary and The Man Who Laughs.
context_section_description: Siegmann's career almost ended early, in 1915, when he was seriously injured while riding as a passenger in a car driven by fellow film actor and director Tod Browning. Browning collided at full speed with a "street work car loaded with iron rails", reportedly due to his not seeing that work vehicle's "rear lamp". Another actor, Elmer Booth, was a passenger as well in Browning's car. Booth died instantly, and Siegmann suffered four broken ribs, a deeply lacerated thigh, and internal injuries. Browning was badly injured too, including a shattered right leg and the loss of his front teeth.
  Siegmann married at least twice. In 1917 he married 22-year-old Marguerite Webb, a native of Michigan. The length of their union is undetermined, although it presumably ended by divorce prior to his marriage to Maud Darby in 1927. That second marriage proved to be a relatively brief one, for the following year George, at age 46, died of pernicious anemia.
caption: Léon Bary, Eugene Pallette, Douglas Fairbanks, and George Siegmann in The Three Musketeers (1921)
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