Lumsden Hare

Francis Lumsden Hare (17 October 1874 – 28 August 1964) was an Irish-born American film and theatre actor.

[3] In 1908, he made his Broadway debut in the play What Every Woman Knows, starring Maude Adams.

Throughout his career, he occasionally also did double duty as director (Peter's Mother [1918][4]) or producer (What Every Woman Knows [1926 revival],[5] Elmer Gantry [1928],[6] etc.)

The New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall praised his performances repeatedly: By his final screen appearance in 1961, Hare had amassed over 140 film credits and appeared in over a dozen television productions.

He died 28 August 1964, aged 89, in Beverly Hills, California.

Hare with Elsie Ferguson in The Avalanche (1919)
with Turhan Bey in Shadows on the Stairs (1941)