Wilfred Van Norman Lucas was a Canadian American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter.
15 Facts About Wilfred Lucas
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Wilfred Lucas was the youngest of three sons to be raised by Daniel Lucas and the former E Adeline Reynolds, in Townsend and later Montreal, Quebec.
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Wilfred Lucas attended the High School of Montreal and McGill University before immigrating to America in the late 1880s.
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Wilfred Lucas eventually made a name for himself performing in light and grand opera in America and abroad.
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Wilfred Lucas made his Broadway debut on April 4,1904, at the Savoy Theater playing in both the curtain raiser "The Blue Grass Handicap" and The Superstition of Sue in which he played Sue's brother, Percy Flage.
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In 1908 Wilfred Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's The Greaser's Gauntlet, appearing in more than 50 of these short films over the next two years.
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Wilfred Lucas began directing in 1912 with Griffith on An Outcast Among Outcasts, and directed another 44 films over the next 20 years.
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Part of the group of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Wilfred Lucas became friends and sometimes starred with Mary Pickford, Sam De Grasse, and Marie Dressler.
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Wilfred Lucas made the successful transition from silent film to sound.
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Wilfred Lucas later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford.
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The couple went on to have two sons, Wilfred "Irving" Lucas, Kirke LaShelle Lucas, and one daughter, Alice Van Norman Lucas, before their divorce sometime before 1910.
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Five years after he married Louise, Wilfred Lucas became an American citizen at a ceremony held in San Bernardino, California.
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John Meredyth Wilfred Lucas became a successful writer and director including a number of episodes of Mannix and Star Trek.
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John Wilfred Lucas wrote about his sometimes strained relationship with his father after his parents divorced in his book Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood: Memoir of a Career in Film and Television.
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Wilfred Lucas died on December 13,1940, at Los Angeles and was interred at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory.