The actor, Monroe Salisbury, was born on May 8, 1876 in Angola, Indiana. A Yale graduate, he decided on a career as an actor and established himself as a credible stage performer before entering films in 1913. For the next decade, Monroe Salisbury would prove to be a popular and credible movie actor, but the films would be few after 1920.

Monroe Salisbury never married. The actor passed away on August 6, 1935 due to injuries received from a fractured skull. He had been admitted into an insane asylum a month earlier, though we've never been able to ascertain if that was due to his head injury or if he fell while at the asylum.

A busy actor during the silent movie era, Monroe Salisbury left a respectable filmography. The films below are just a small sampling:

• The Master Mind (1914)
• Brewster's Millions (1914)
• The Lamb (1915)
• A Gentleman of Leisure (1915)
• The Door Between (1917)
• The Desire of the Moth (1917)
• The Eagle (1918)
• The Guilt of Silence (1918)
• His Divorced Wife (1919)
• The Sundown Trail (1919)
• Her Husband's Women (1929)
• The Jade Box (1930)