Edgar Norton

Norton was born in Islington in London, England, on August 11, 1868, as Harry Edgar Mills, one of eight children of Jane Anne née Fleming and Frederic Mills, a clerk in the Home Office department of the Civil Service.

[1][2] Norton was active on both stage and screen, his theater performances were on both the London and Broadway stages,[3] and his film career spanned both the silent and "talkie" eras in Hollywood.

[6] Norton moved permanently to the United States in 1889, and was naturalised as an American citizen in 1927.

He married his Detroit-born wife Lillian Mable née Hubbard in Ontario in Canada in 1890, and with her had a son, Edgar Norton Mills.

[7] He died in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles in February 1953.

Phoebe Carlo as Alice, Edgar Norton as Hare, Dorothy D'Alcourt as Dormouse and Sydney Harcourt as Hatter in Alice in Wonderland (1886)