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- At the American Women’s War Hospital near Paignton, England, a Harvard-trained surgeon rebuilt Empey’s battered face, grafting a piece of bone from a cadaver rib to fill the hole that a bullet had left in his cheek.
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Arthur Guy Empey (December 11, 1883 – February 22, 1963) was an American soldier, author, actor and filmmaker. He served with the British Army during World War I, and upon his return wrote a popular autobiographical book, Over the Top, which sold over a quarter million copies.
Dec 29, 2020 · At the American Women’s War Hospital near Paignton, England, a Harvard-trained surgeon rebuilt Empey’s battered face, grafting a piece of bone from a cadaver rib to fill the hole that a bullet had left in his cheek. After a lengthy recovery, Empey returned to America.
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In 1918 Arthur Guy Empey played himself in a silent motion picture loosely based on his best-selling World War I memoir. No print of the film is known to have survived.
Jan 2, 2018 · Frustrated by his own country’s neutrality in the early years of World War I, Arthur Guy Empey traveled to London and enlisted in the British Army. Soon he was in the trenches on the Western Front.
- Pre-War Military Service
- World War 1 Service with The British Army
- Return Home, Author, Propaganda Service For The United States Government
- Hollywood
- Pulp-Fiction Writer
- Politico-Military Activity
- Personal Life
- Death
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He served for six years as a professional soldier in the U.S. Cavalry, during which time he became a first class horse-rider and marksman, and was resident in New York City performing duty as a recruiting sergeant for the New Jersey National Guard when World War 1began.
He left the United States at the end of 1915 frustrated at its neutrality in the conflict at that point and travelled to London, England, where he voluntarily enlisted with the 1st London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), T.F., of the British Army, going on to serve with it in the 56th (London) Division on the Western Front as a bomber and a machine-gunn...
On returning to the United States, Empey wrote a book of his experiences titled Over the Top, which became a publishing sensation in 1917 with over a quarter of a million copies sold, and was turned into a film in 1918 with Empey writing the screenplay and playing the lead role. Empey had attempted to re-join the US Army in 1917 but was rejected du...
On the back of the commercial success of 'Over the Top' Empey arrived in Hollywood in 1918 to star in a dramatic filmed production using the book's title (the melodramatic screenplay used bore only a passing resemblance to the book's content ) by the 'Vitagraph Company of America'. He was also briefly a popular songwriter during the war years, writ...
In the late-1920s, as his Hollywood film career was dwindling, Empey shifted into a new creative direction on being commissioned to write World War 1 themed pulp fiction stories, creating the character Terence X. O'Leary. The character appeared in several publications, including 'War Stories' (Dell), and in 'Battle Stories' (Fawcett), with the Infa...
In early 1935 Empey, concerned about the growing influence of World Communism in America with its potential for civil strife, and still possessing social connections with the Hollywood film production community, organised a volunteer paramilitary uniformed militia cavalry unit called the Hollywood Hussars, styling himself as its Colonel. As well as...
Empey married Marguerite Andrus, Hollywood actress (professional name "Patricia Archer") and former "Miss Long Beach" beauty contest winner, in March 1930, they were subsequently divorced in Los Angeles, California in October 1934. The marriage produced a daughter, the model and dancer Diane Webber.
Empey died in a United States military Veterans' Hospital at Wadsworth, Kansas on 22. February 1963 in his 79th year. His body was buried in the Leavenworth National Cemetery.
Lua error in Module:Internet_Archive at line 573: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).A short time after experiencing the gas attack, Empey was wounded in the face and left shoulder during a raid on German trenches. He was mustered out of the British Army and returned to his native New Jersey.
For all of the author’s giddy enthusiasm, Empey made little effort to hide the Great War’s insatiable consumption of soldier’s bodies, including his own. During a nighttime raid on a German trench, Empey was shot in the face at close range, the bullet smashing his cheekbones just below his left eye.
