Cosmo Kyrle Bellew

He immigrated to the United States in 1914,[1] and began his career as a vaudeville actor, appearing in The Devil's Mate in 1915.

[5] Following the war he continued his career in theater, appearing in the musical vaudeville skit Somewhere in France in 1918, when he was stranded in Omaha, Nebraska by the Spanish flu, and was reduced to working in a meat-packing plant and subsisting on free meals.

[6][7] He appeared in the musicals Dearie[8] and The Canary in 1920,[9] and The Boy and Good Morning Judge in 1921,[10][11] In 1926 he appeared on stage in the Ziegfeld musical Louie the Fourteenth,[12] and the Fox Film Summer Bachelors (as Bachelor No.

[18] Bellew was notable for his "young face" that was "emphasized by his snow-white hair, it having turned grey at the age of 18.

In his later years Bellew suffered from a heart condition,[28] and died at home in Beverly Hills on January 25, 1948.