Frank Spottiswoode Aitken (16 April 1868 – 26 February 1933) was a Scottish-American actor of the silent era.

[2] In his book, The King of the Movies: Film Pioneer Siegmund Lubin, Joseph P. Eckhardt wrote that Aitken was "trained as a Shakespearean actor, with many years of experience under his belt.

[5] Aitken was one of the first actors to settle in Los Angeles when the film industry was still at its strongest in New York.

He invested most of his earnings in real estate, buying up orange groves around what would become Hollywood.

Aitken was involved in a controversy in 1922 when, after suing his wife Marion Dana Jones for divorce for alleged infidelity, she countersued.