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Making his screen debut in a bit in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), former vaudeville entertainer and stock company owner William P. DeVaull went on to play scores of supporting roles in serials and action-melodramas, often cast as butlers, doctors, or clergymen. His screen career, which included playing Napoleon Bonaparte in a low-budget comedy, Tea: With a Kick (1923), produced and written by Victor Halperin, ended in 1927.