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Snyder was born when Andrew Jackson was President and died when Woodrow Wilson was President.
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Career
Foreign other persons with this name see and Matt Snider Snyder is amongst the earliest born actors to appear in motion pictures and at his death the oldest actor in movies. During the Civil War Snyder served in the Union Navy and was a gunner on the United States Ship Essex at Vicksburg. In film he had an important role in the 1913 King Baggot Doctor Hyde.
His last film was The Crisis, a film by novelist Winston Churchill about the Civil War which he did not live to see released.
The Crisis is a surviving film at the Library of Congress and Snyder can seen in this role in a still photo in Daniel Blum"s Pictorial History of the Silent Screen with his young costar Marshall Neilan.
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January 17, 1917 (aged 81) -
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American