The Actor's Children is a 1910 American silent short drama written by Lloyd Lonergan and produced by the Thanhouser Company in New Rochelle, New York.

The film features Orilla Smith, Yale Boss, Frank Hall Crane and Nicholas Jordan.

The film was met with positive reviews and some criticism for its acting and scenario, but the industry had reasons to encourage the success of Edwin Thanhouser's company.

[1] In the meantime, the parents have searched for their children and suddenly come into a fortune when a relative bequeaths a large sum of money to them.

[1] The script for the production was written by Lloyd F. Lonergan, who employed the deus ex machina dramatic technique in the conclusion of the plot.

The two children, Orilla Smith and Yale Boss, were child actors with prior film experience and did not have any further known connection to the Thanhouser Company after the production.

[3][4] The exact order of the productions is not known, but a work titled Aunt Nancy Telegraphs was filmed in December 1909 and never released.

Barry O'Neil was the stage name of Thomas J. McCarthy, who would direct many important Thanhouser pictures, including its first two-reeler, Romeo and Juliet.

[4] The single reel drama, approximately 1000 ft (0.3 km) , was released on March 15, 1910, by the Thanhouser Company.

[1] In later years, Edwin Thanhouser recalled that 19 copies of the film were produced and sent out to dealers throughout the United States.

[2] The film was viewed across the United States with advertisements for showings in Pennsylvania,[5] Wisconsin,[6] Kansas,[7] and Washington[8] The Actor's Children was released with enthusiasm and positive reviews in trade publications.

Furthermore, writers in the magazines hoped that Independents would succeed and challenge the Patents Company's stranglehold on the industry.

When the organ grinder takes the children back to his hovel, the intertitle states they are forced to dance.