Career
DeHaven started his career in vaudeville and started acting in movies in 1915. He regularly starred in comedy shorts up until 1923. While working for Paramount in 1920, some of these were directed by Charley Chase.
A 1927 short, Character Studies, purports to display DeHaven"s quick-change abilities, as he transforms himself in seconds into the spitting image of various major film stars of the era: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and 13-year-old Jackie Coogan.
This was the only film in which Keaton and Lloyd appeared together and also marked Keaton"s last film appearance with Arbuckle, his former partner. DeHaven went on to work with Charlie Chaplin, as assistant director on Modern Times (1936) and assistant producer foreign
In the latter film, he also played the Bacterian Ambassador. At this time he also guest starred on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom, The Donna Reed Show in the role of Fred Miller in "lieutenant Only Hurts When I Laugh".
They would often be paired together in films such as The College Orphan (1915) and Twin Bedfordshire.
Their daughter, actress Gloria DeHaven, made her first screen appearance in Modern Times. Both Carter and Gloria DeHaven have their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After their divorce, Carter De Haven remarried, to Evelyn Burd (a union which also ended in divorce), by whom he had a son, Carter De Haven, Junior., also an actor and director
Carter DeHaven died in 1977 at age 90 and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, United States. Twin Bedfordshire.