Born on Long Island, New York in the village of Great Neck on August 18, 1891, Sullivan had his start in film shorts in the 1910s.

His first film production was a short which was part of a 23-part serial entitled, The Million Dollar Mystery, in 1914.

[1] During the early 1920s, he continued to work mainly in shorts, before moving into almost exclusively feature films in 1925.

[2] From 1924 through 1927 he starred in about 20 films for Rayart Pictures, such as The Slanderers (1924),[3] Goat Getter (1925),[4] The Winner (1926),[5] and When Seconds Count (1927).

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