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From Ohio, despite his Germanic-sounding name, debonair silent screen leading man Carl Von Schiller enjoyed a long screen career that lasted well into the 1950s and included appearances on such television shows as The Lone Ranger. A popular stock company juvenile, Von Schiller entered films with the Philadelphia-based Lubin Mfg. Company in the very early 1910s. By 1916, he was in California appearing in Sins of the Parents a melodrama in which he discovers that the mother of his betrothed is a dance hall girl and in Vengeance is Mine in which he is executed for a crime he didn't commit. Leaving the screen in favor of stage work in 1920, Von Schiller returned to films in the early '40s under a new moniker, Jerome Sheldon, appearing mostly in B-Westerns.