After leaving films in 1936, he purchased a CineKodak 16mm movie camera and began making his own productions in and around his ranch, chronicling his life. The footage was stolen and never recovered.
In the 1980's, he told a film historian that horror films were his "only claim to movie fame."
Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(age 97)
Santa Barbara, California, USA