Ivan Berlyn

An experienced and versatile actor, Beryln played "... weird and eccentric character parts" in everything from pantomime to Shakespeare.

In the 1906 edition of the actors' directory The Green Room Book Berlyn made the spurious claim that he had been born as Ivan Emanuel Julian von Berlin and was descended from an ancient family from Alsace-Lorraine.

[4][16] His other film roles include: Isaac Bernstein in The Phantom Picture (1916); Giovanni Leraca in Honour in Pawn opposite Helen Haye (1916);[16] Giuseppe in The Usurper (1919);[16] Ernest in Bookworms by A.

[18] In June 1925 Berlyn played Nick Bottom in an early BBC Radio broadcast of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[20] Berlyn and Armstrong appeared together in The Great Young Man, a comedy by Prince Vladimir Vladimirovich Baryatinsky and produced at the Kingsway Theatre in London in October 1911.

Ivan Berlyn in 1915
Berlyn as Fagin in Oliver Twist in 1903. Illustration in The Daily Graphic