Gaston Bell

George Gaston Bell (September 27, 1877 – December 13, 1963) was an American stage and film actor active over the early decades of the twentieth century.

His acting career began in 1902 as a member of Charles Frohman's theatrical organization shortly after his graduation from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

The following year he supported Harry Beresford in Charles T. Vincent's Our New Man, and in the spring of 1905 he replaced William Courtenay as Little Billee in Trilby at New York's New Amsterdam Theatre.

[5] In 1910 Bell toured with the Columbia Stock Company performing in such plays as Clyde Fitche's Girls as the misanthrope Frank Loot, and the supporting role Bryce Forrester in Caught in the Rain by William Collier, Sr. and Grant Stewart.

[11][12] By late 1918 Bell was back on the road touring in The Naughty Wife by Fred Jackson and the next year with the Max Marcin comedy, Cheating Cheaters.

Bell with Lillian Russell at the Hollywood studios of the Kinemacolor Company of America, 1912.