Stanley J. Damerell (aka Jack Stevens aka John Edward Stanley Damerell Stevens; né John Edward Stanley Stevens; 1 July 1878 – 12 December 1951) was, in his early life (1900s through to the early 1920s), a British vaudevillian actor, writer, and producer, and in his later life (from the 1920s until his death), a prolific lyricist, and, to a lesser degree, composer of popular songs.
[1] As a writer and producer of vaudevillian revues, Damerell collaborated with Cecil Rutland.
In 1921, composer Tolchard Evans, and his regular lyricists, Damerell and Robert Joseph Hargreaves (1893–1934), along with Harry Tilsley (né Henry B. Tilsley), formed the Cecil Lennox Music Company to publish their songs.
[4] Damerell also collaborated with John Neat (1876–1949), who sometimes used the pseudonym Lilian Ray.
On 4 August 1902, Damerell married Violet Eva Walter (1882–1974), an actress, in St Pancras.