[1] His story "The Red Mouse" was adapted for the film Her Silent Sacrifice.

He also interviewed Guglielmo Marconi about his radio telegraph transmitter in 1897.

[1] Dam was born in San Francisco and graduated from the University of California.

[5] He moved to London where he married stage actress Dorothy Dorr (1866–1940) on October 27, 1892.

[5][6] A heliograph image of him is at The American Vaudeville Museum Archive at the University of Arizona from his musical comedy The Shop Girl (1894).