Actor. He was encouraged by his mother, Charlotte Pickford, to enter the entertainment business like his older sister Mary Pickford, the noted silent film starlet. As a child actor on stage, he developed into a colorful juvenile player. But it was Mary who gave him his start in Biograph Company in 1909 at the age of 13. When Mary signed her multi-million dollar contract with First National in 1917, one of the stipulations was that Jack receive a contract as well. A stint in the Navy proved disastrous when he was accused of accepting bribes from rich men so they could stay out of the front lines. He was later exonerated of all the charges. Jack found success with "Great Expectations" (1917) and the lead role in "Tom Sawyer" (1917), then went on to become a popular star in his own right. He tried producing some films, including "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" and "The Man Who Had Everything." But sadly, more interest was being paid to his off-camera lifestyle. He picked up gambling, alcohol, and drug addictions. His first wife, Olive Thomas, tragically died at a hospital in Paris, France in 1920, five days after she ingested a poisonous substance; the couple had been married for only four years. Olive's remains were returned to New York City and interred in the Pickford Mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery. Olive's death haunted Jack for the rest of his life. He married two more times, the first to Broadway star Marilyn Miller and the last to minor actress Mary Mulhern. Both ended in messy divorces. By the late 1920s, Jack had become completely undependable, and his career stopped after the invention of sound in motion pictures, despite Mary's attempts to help him. Jack Pickford's alcoholism contributed to his untimely death at age 36 in 1933. In an ironic coincidence, Pickford died at the American Hospital in Paris, which was the same hospital where his first wife, Olive Thomas, had died 13 years earlier. His remains were returned to the United States and interred in the private Pickford family plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, which is 2,800 miles west of the original Pickford Mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery. Olive is still interred in the Pickford Mausoleum. Ironically, Pickford's second wife Marilyn Miller is also interred at Woodlawn; she is in an extravagant mausoleum with her first husband, Frank Carter. Jack Pickford, Olive Thomas, and Marilyn Miller all died at a very young age.