Sybil Bruncheon’s “Funny Film Facts & Faces”…
/Here we have the famously infamous Frank "The Monterey Biter" Trulligan. A bit player from the Sheinowitz Vaudeville Circuit whose extended family were novelty-jugglers, ventriloquists, and clairvoyants... often combining all three talents into one particularly frenetic, and sometimes terrifying act. Knives, buzz-saws, and flaming torches flying through the air while strange voices from various orifices made dire predictions involving earthquakes, talking goats, and farts!
Except for a brief moment in the transitional period of silent film to “talkies”, his career was a series of disappointments, missed opportunites and auditions, and petty larceny of fruits, vegetables, and socks. Eventually, he was called the Monterey Biter because during a severely lean season of bookings, he was known to hide in women's dressing rooms in local clothing stores disguised as a coatrack and suddenly jump out and bite the startled customers on their nether parts... particularly while they were trying on ...um... "dainties"...
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