- Brother of Perry Askam. NOTE: Like his brother, Earl was also a trained opera singer, and a member of the New York Metropolitan Opera.
- He was stricken with a fatal heart attack while playing golf with Kermit Maynard.
- Served in the US Army as a lieutenant in World War I.
- Was injured on the set of The Plainsman (1936) when a team of horses pulling a stagecoach suddenly bolted and knocked down he and two other extras.
- His father was a prominent physician in Santa Clara County, CA.
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