James Austin Gleason was born May 23, 1882 in New York City to actors and he started acting himself during school breaks. He also enlisted in the army and served three years in the Phillipines. Once he was back in America, Gleason started treating his budding acting career much more seriously than before. Gleason would join the stock company at the Liberty Theater in Oakland, California which his parents ran. He toured with the Baker Theater stock with his actress wife, Lucille Webster. His writing career also began after a stint on the West End in London in writing dialogue for comedy films until World War 1 intervened. His first film was "Polly of the Follies" (1922) with Constance Talmadge which began his three decades worth of movie work until the golden age of television which he also flourished in. James Gleason died at the age of 76 in 1959 of complications with asthma.
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