 He said of his "evil" look in "The Lure of Jade" that even he was afraid to look in the mirror, and that he scared the cameramen on set; however, he was regarded as one of the nicest people in the business in real life.Off-set, his hobbies included cultivating roses.He was married to Miso Kino, who also reportedly worked as an actress in Hollywood; she survived him when he died in 1922, but may have drowned a year later while crossing the Pacific.