---
name: "Ralph Yearsley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ralph-yearsley"
fi1m_id: "ralph-yearsley"
imdb_id: "nm0947068"
tmdb_id: 148403
wikidata_id: "Q7288302"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 October 1896"
died: "4 December 1928"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:27:03.977298+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ralph Yearsley

## Identity

Ralph Yearsley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ralph-yearsley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ralph-yearsley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0947068
- **TMDB ID:** 148403
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7288302
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Yearsley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7288302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947068/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/148403

Actor. Born 5 October 1896 in London, England, UK. Died 4 December 1928.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 October 1896, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 4 December 1928
- **Also known as:** R. Yearsley
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Yearsley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7288302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947068/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/148403

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- **HBO Max:** [*The Kid Brother*](https://film.one/film/the-kid-brother.md) (81)

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## Biography

Ralph Yearsley (6 October 1896 – 4 December 1928) was a British-born character actor who worked in Hollywood silent films.

Born in London, he trained in a medical school before moving to the United States to pursue a career in film. He made his screen debut in 1921 in *Pardon My French* and appeared the same year as Saul 'Little Buzzard' Hatburn in *Tol'able David*. Over the following years he took secondary and minor roles in around twenty films, including *Anna Christie* (1923), *Peter Pan* (1924) and *The Kid Brother* (1927), in which he played Hank Hooper.

Yearsley died by suicide in Hollywood, California, at the age of 32 and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Kid Brother* (1927), Fi1m 81, as Hank Hooper — [page](https://film.one/film/the-kid-brother.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Show Boat* (1929), as The Killer
- *The Big Killing* (1928), as Second Beagle Son
- *Rose-Marie* (1928), as Jean
- *Born to Battle* (1927), as Jasper Cowan
- *The Kid Brother* (1927), as Hank Hooper — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-kid-brother.md)
- *Hurricane Hal* (1925), as Sad Slim
- *Another Man's Wife* (1924), Actor
- *The Fighting Sap* (1924), as Twister
- *Valley of Hate* (1924), as Bob Darley
- *The Valley of Hate* (1924), as Bob Darley
- *The Hill Billy* (1924), as Aaron
- *The Call of the Canyon* (1923), as Charlie Oatmeal
- *Anna Christie* (1923), as The Brutal Cousin
- *A Chapter in Her Life* (1923), as Zeke Forbes
- *Arabia* (1922), as Waldemar Terhune
- *The Village Blacksmith* (1922), as Anson Brigham
- *Tol'able David* (1921), as Saul 'Little Buzzard' Hatburn
- *Pardon My French* (1921), as Zeke Hawker

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