He was born in
Bowling Green, Kentucky, and died in
Detroit,
Michigan from a
cerebral hemorrhage. Mayall was the son of James H. Mayall and Merilla L. Mayall. Mayall acted on stage, joining the Pike Opera House Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1897 and staying there until the theater burned in 1902, He returned to Cincinnati in 1905 to join the Forepaugh Stock Company and acted with that group for three seasons. In 1906, he was "considered 'Frisco's most popular actor" when the
1906 San Francisco earthquake closed the Alhambra theater, where he had been performing. He and a group of other actors from that theater formed a company that began performing in cities that included Salt Lake City and Reno, Nevada. He also directed
Deep Channels (1929) on Broadway. ==Filmography==