Francis Henry Westerton (6 April 1866 – 25 August 1923) was a British stage and silent film actor of the 19th and early 20th centuries who carved a successful career on Broadway from 1905 to 1922.

[1] Frank Westerton commenced his successful stage career sometime in the late 1880s and in 1891 he was playing opposite Ellaline Terriss in a revival of Arrah-Na-Pogue at the Princess's Theatre in London.

[5] In 1895 he appeared for Greet as Silvius in As You Like It, Ernest Vane in Masks and Faces, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, George Hastings in She Stoops to Conquer and Antigonus in The Winter's Tale at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

[8] In 1897 during the Ben Greet Season at the Olympic Theatre in London Westerton played Sextus Pompey in Antony and Cleopatra, Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice and Banquo in Macbeth.

[10][11] Westerton first went to the United States in 1902 where he toured in Everyman for The Ben Greet Players and again in Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1903-04) at the Belasco Theatre[12] before moving there permanently, marrying the American actress Madge E. McNulty in Manhattan on 16 February 1905, and joining The Lambs Club in 1906.