Lester H. Cuneo (October 25, 1888 – November 1, 1925) was an American stage and silent film actor.

[1] Born in Chicago, Illinois, Cuneo attended Culver Military Academy, and he was a law student at Northwestern University when he turned to acting.

[2] Cuneo's stage career included work with stock theater companies in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Winnepeg.

[2] Cuneo began a film career in 1912 with the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company then joined Essanay Studios in 1914.

[6] Despondent over the breakdown of his marriage and the downhill slide of his film career, Lester Cuneo took his own life with a gunshot to the head in 1925.