1. Bertram Mortimer Lytell was an American actor in theater and film during the silent film era and early talkies.
13 Facts About Bert Lytell
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Bert Lytell's mother was an actress before she married, and her father and grandfather were actors.
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Bert Lytell's acting debut came with the Columbia Stock Company in Newark, New Jersey, when he was 17 years old.
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Bert Lytell went on to appear with stock theater companies in Boston, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Rochester, in addition to heading his own stock troupes in Albany, New York, and San Francisco.
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Bert Lytell appeared with Marie Dressler in her 1914 Broadway play, A MIX-UP.
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Bert Lytell performed in vaudeville in the 1920s with the one-act play The Valiant.
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In 1917, Bert Lytell made his film debut starring as Michael Lanyard in The Lone Wolf.
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Bert Lytell subsequently made four Lone Wolf sequels, ending with The Last of the Lone Wolf.
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Bert Lytell starred as Boston Blackie in Boston Blackie's Little Pal and Blackie's Redemption.
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Bert Lytell married a silent film actor, Evelyn Vaughn, in 1910, and they divorced in 1924.
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Bert Lytell began dating Claire Windsor during the couple's long estrangement, according to the Cal York gossip column in Photoplay, and they married in 1925; they divorced in 1927.
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Bert Lytell worked on NBC daytime shows in the early 1950s while he was Shepherd of the actors club The Lambs from 1947 to 1952.
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Bert Lytell has a star at 6417 Hollywood Avenue in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.