Alphonse Bergé

Albert Berg (July 12, 1885 – June 23, 1980), known by the stage name Alphonse Bergé, or simply Alphonse, was an English-American vaudeville and variety show entertainer, who performed as The Great Drapo.

Life and career He was born in Islington, London, England, where he started work as a window dresser. He married, and in 1904 emigrated to the U.S., where he found work as an actor and later became a naturalized citizen. Over subsequent years Berg took the stage name "M. Alphonse Bergé". Sometimes credited as a dress designer, he appeared in a Pathé short in 1923, and in the 1937 Bing Crosby film Double or Nothing. In 1939, billed as the Great Drapo, he performed his act at the New York World's Fair, and he featured in Ken Murray's Blackouts in New York in 1943 and again in 1949. In 1944 he featured in the film That's My Baby. and not at an earlier date as some sources suggest.