[2] Born in Liverpool, England, in 1856, Richard Ganthony spent most of his career in the United States, moving there when he was very young.
[3] On his death in May 1924, at the age of 67, the Malaya Tribune said that Ganthony "was naturally retiring and was not well known in theatrical circles."
[3] His big break came in The Cat and the Cherub (Olympia Theatre, New York City, September 1897) where he played the part of Chim Fang, the grim owner of an opium den.
[16] In 1903, Ganthony was awarded £200 in libel damages from a court due to a false claim by the Daily Express stating that George Hawtrey had rewritten A Message from Mars before it became successful.
[17] In 1912 "A Message from Mars" was published as a book creditted to Lester Lurgan and Ganthony.