Bert Errol (born Isaac Whitehouse; 11 August 1883 – 28 November 1949) was a British singer and female impersonator, who was a popular entertainer in both Britain and the United States.
[1] From the age of 18,[2] he worked in music halls and concert parties, and in the all-male Harry Reynolds' Minstrels,[3] before making his first London appearance in 1908, billed as "The Famous Male Soprano and Double-Voiced Vocalist".
[2] He first visited the United States in 1910, when there was publicity over the fact that he had paid $1,000 customs duty on his gowns, many of which he had bought from Henry Paget, the Marquess of Anglesey.
[3] He always appeared with his wife, Ray Hartley, whom he presented on stage, "for fear of any suspicion of homosexuality",[4] and who assisted with his rapid changes of clothes.
[4] In 1935, he appeared in the pantomime Cinderella on BBC radio, and was described as "one of the finest female impersonators of modern times, who must have played in nearly every music-hall in the country".