[2] Lytell's acting debut came with the Columbia Stock Company in Newark, New Jersey, when he was 17 years old.

[3] In 1917, Lytell made his film debut starring as Michael Lanyard in The Lone Wolf.

[6] He 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.

[7] Like many other silent screen stars, Lytell's career collapsed after the advent of talking pictures.

He worked on NBC daytime shows in the early 1950s while he was Shepherd (President) of the actors club The Lambs from 1947 to 1952.