Cavendish Morton (actor)

Cavendish Morton (1874–1939) was a British actor, photographer, and art director.

[2] He moved to London in the late 1890s and worked with the companies of Charles Wyndham and H. Beerbohm Tree.

He was the author of The Art of Theatrical Make-up (1909) and Cinema Acting: A Handbook for Amateurs (1914), a presumed-to-be lost book that may be the earliest British guide to film acting.

After a period of nomadic wandering the family settled in Bembridge in the Isle of Wight where the couple home-schooled their sons with an emphasis on the arts.

[7] Much of his photographic work was lost when his studio caught fire during the London Blitz bombing of World War II.