Pritchett Spence — Young Ideas Character Profile

About Pritchett Spence

Gallery owner who hopelessly admires Octavia. He devises a quarantine trick with a doctor friend to get her away from her family, chases her back home when Grandma falls ill, and ultimately wins her hand in marriage.

Character Facts

Played by

T. Roy Barnes

Appears in

Young Ideas (1924)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Pritchett Spence — Romantic Hopeless Admirer — Octavia Lowden (Laura La Plante)

  Spence harbors deep, unrequited romantic feelings for Octavia.

• Pritchett Spence — Conflict Trickster — Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus)

  Spence deceives and imprisons Aunt Minnie to remove Octavia's distractions.

• Pritchett Spence — Conflict Trickster — Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows)

  Spence uses deception to confine Uncle Eph within the house.

• Pritchett Spence — Conflict Trickster — Grandma (Jennie Lee)

  Spence's quarantine scheme inadvertently traps Grandma.

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More characters from Young Ideas

• Octavia Lowden (Laura La Plante)
• Eloise Lowden (Lucille Ricksen)
• Grandma (Jennie Lee)
• Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus)
• Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows)
• (uncredited) (Janet Gaynor)
• Bertie Loomis (Rolfe Sedan)
• Bob Lowden (Buddy Messinger)