Lewis Lord 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 and the Marx Brothers film, A Night in Casablanca (1946).

Early life and work Russell was born in Farmington, Illinois to British immigrants Samuel and Martha Jane (Wood) Lord, he was the only child of nine born in the United States and, curiously, the only one who developed an English accent. His father was an Illinois coal miner. After running away from home as a teenager, he began his life in the restaurant business, becoming an avid cook and eventually owning two restaurants. He also designed rugs and tapestries Russell broke into the Broadway scene in the mid 1930s and starred as "The Squire" in the Broadway revival production of Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green (1943) with leading lady Ethel Barrymore at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York.

Later life He designed his own home in Pasadena, California, where he kept house, Ernest Hemingway-style, with his two-dozen cats. He died in Reseda, California at the age of 72. )

Roles

Broadway

Dead End (October 28, 1935 – June 12, 1937) as Medical Examiner London Assurance (February 18, 1937 – February 1937) as Max Harkaway Abe Lincoln in Illinois (October 15, 1938 – December 1939) as Judge Bowling Green Bright Rebel (December 27, 1938 – January 1939) as Lord Melbourne Return Engagement (November 1, 1940 – November 7, 1940) as Baldy Bemis Cuckoos on the Hearth (September 16, 1941 – January 3, 1942) as Zadoc Grimes The Corn Is Green (May 3, 1943 – June 19, 1943) as The Squire

Films

The Affairs of Susan (1945) as Mr. Cusp Molly and Me (1945) as Sir Arthur Burroughs You Came Along (1945) as Chairman The Lost Weekend (1945) as Charles St. James Hold That Blonde! (1945) as Henry Carteret She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945) as Colonel Brady One Way to Love (1946) as Roger Winthrop A Night in Casablanca (1946, a Marx Bros. film) as Governor Galoux She Wrote the Book (1946) as George Dixon If I'm Lucky (1946) as P.H. Gillingwater (uncredited) Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) as Chief Justice (uncredited) Cross My Heart (1946) as Judge Ladies Man (1947) as David Harmon Jewels of Brandenburg (1947) as Roger Hamilton The Trouble with Women (1947) as Dr. Wilmer Dawson I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947) as T.J. Milford (uncredited) The Prince of Thieves (1948) as Sir Fitz-Alwin (uncredited) My Dog Rusty (1948) as Mayor Fulderwilder Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) as Tom Widgery When the Redskins Rode (1951) as Gov. Dinwiddie The Underworld Story (1950) as Calvin Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951) as Hull (uncredited) Les Misérables (1952) as Waiter (uncredited) Against All Flags (1952) as Oxford (uncredited) Sangaree (1953) as Capt. Bronson The King's Thief (1955) as Gentleman (uncredited) The Naked Hills (1956) as Baxter (uncredited) (final film role)

Television Public Prosecutor, episode "The Case of the Missing Hour" (1947) as Jerome O. Kendrick The Life of Riley, "Egbert's Chemistry Set" (1949) as Doctor China Smith, "Shanghai Clipper" (1952) as Lord Ratcliffe Front Page Detective, "Seven Seas to Danger" (1952) as Dr. Oscar Grandell Adventures of Superman, "Five Minutes to Doom" (1953) as W. T. Wayne I Married Joan, "Brad's Moustache" (1953) as a Member of the Nominating Committee