Herschel Mayall (July 12, 1863 – June 10, 1941) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era.

He was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and died in Detroit, Michigan from a cerebral hemorrhage.

[2] Mayall acted on stage, joining the Pike Opera House Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1897 and staying there until the theater burned in 1902, He returned to Cincinnati in 1905 to join the Forepaugh Stock Company and acted with that group for three seasons.

[3] In 1906, he was "considered 'Frisco's most popular actor" when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake closed the Alhambra theater, where he had been performing.

[4] On Broadway, Mayall portrayed Father Roubier in The Garden of Allah (1911) and Laertes in Hamlet (1912).