Joseph Byron Totten was a playwright and an actor in theater[1] and silent films in the United States.
He had a 47 acre farm in Pendleton Hill, Connecticut where he kept horses, cattle, and a kennel.
[4] He wrote The Forger, "a society problem play", copyrightednin 1908.
[8] He wrote a dramatization of Harold McGrath's novel The Woman Armsan.
[10] He wrote the words to the song "Piquita" with music by Arthur Bergh, copyrighted in 1925.