- Gravestone gives date of birth as 1880.
- Interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
- Friend and next-door neighbor of director John Ford when they both lived on Odin Street in Hollywood prior to construction of the Hollywood Bowl.
- An avid fisherman, one of his fishing buddies was Slim Summerville.
- Cousin of Billy Ray.
- He subdued a Selig Studios employee who shot to death producer / director Francis Boggs and wounded William Nicholas Selig on Oct. 27, 1911. The employee, a gardener, had a mental breakdown and ran through the executive offices armed with a revolver when he found Boggs and Selig in a production meeting. Santschi happened upon the man in a corridor. He wrestled the assailant to the floor, disarmed him and held him until police arrived.
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