Lewis Russell

Lewis Lord Russell (born George Lewis Lord, September 10, 1889 – November 12, 1961) was an American actor of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s who starred in a number of vaudeville shows, Broadway dramas and Hollywood films, including the Academy Award winning The Lost Weekend (1945) and the Marx Brothers film, A Night in Casablanca (1946).

[2] He played Pancho Villa and had several starring roles in silent pictures, acting at least once opposite Pola Negri.

[2] He also played Jane Wyman’s concerned father, Charles St. James, in The Lost Weekend, Ray Milland’s most popular film.

The playbill for the opening night of Bright Rebel (1938), a drama about the British Romantic-Era poet Lord Byron, features the following biographical note, which not only confirms Russell's adoption of an English identity but also suggests that he starred in many more plays than currently on record: "LEWIS L. RUSSELL (Lord Melbourne) is both an Englishman and an actor by birth.

He was born in Leeds, England, shortly after his mother, a well-known English actress, gave one of those 'the show must go on' performances.

Playbill for "Bright Rebel" at the Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, December 1938, featuring an image of Lord Byron