Junior Durkin

Durkin was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. He also wrote the 1883 play Esmeralda together with Frances Hodgson Burnett. Coogan was the only survivor of the accident. Some of his plays included Held by the Enemy (1886) and Secret Service (1896), the latter becoming a movie in 1931. In 1935 he was travelling with his friend, the actor Jackie Coogan, and three other people including Coogan's father, when their vehicle was involved in a road accident in San Diego, California. Gillette starred in Sherlock Holmes (1916) as Sherlock Holmes. RKO began grooming him for a transition into more adult roles, and in his final film Chasing Yesterday (1935), he was billed as Trent Durkin. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

He achieved another success in Hell's House (1932). William Hooker Gillette (July 24, 1853 - April 29, 1937) was an American actor and dramatist. Under contract with RKO Studios he was cast in a series of "B" films in comedic roles that capitalized on his gangly appearance. He entered films in 1930, and played the role of Huckleberry Finn in Tom Sawyer (1930), and Huckleberry Finn (1931). Born Trent Bernard Durkin in New York, New York, Durkin began his acting career in theater while a child.

Junior Durkin (July 2, 1915 – May 4, 1935) was an American film actor.