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Arthur Byron

{{short description|American actor}}

{{about|the American actor|the English tenor|Arthur Byron (tenor)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Arthur Byron

| image = Arthur Byron in The Casino Murder Case (cropped).jpg

| caption = Byron in The Casino Murder Case, 1935

| birth_name = Arthur William Byron

| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|04|03}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1943|07|16|1872|04|03}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.

| occupation = Film actor

| years_active = 1932–1937

| spouse = Kathryn Keys

| children = 3

| father = Oliver Doud Byron

| relatives = Ada Rehan (aunt)

| module2 = {{infobox officeholder |embed=yes

|office = 4th President of the Actors' Equity Association

|term_start = 1938

|term_end = 1940

|predecessor = Burgess Meredith (acting president)

|successor = Bert Lytell

}}

}}

File:Richard Barbee, Arthur Byron, and Margaret Lawrence in Transplanting Jean (1921).jpg in the Broadway production of Transplanting Jean (1921)]]

Arthur William Byron (April 3, 1872 – July 16, 1943) was an American actor{{cite book |url={{Google books|DiI1wIyatvUC|page=104|plainurl=yes}} |title=The Oxford Companion to American Theatre |first1=Gerald |last1=Bordman |author-link1=Gerald Bordman |first2=Thomas S. |last2=Hischak |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |page=104 |isbn=978-0195169867}} who played a mixture of British and American roles in films.

Early years

Born in Brooklyn, Byron was the son of actors Kate Crehan and Oliver Doud Byron. He was a nephew of the stage actress Ada Rehan.

Career

Byron started his theatrical career in February 1889 at the age of 17 with his father's dramatic company. In 1939 he celebrated his 50 years in showbusiness.

He appeared in more than 300 plays and played with stars like Maxine Elliott, Ethel Barrymore, John Gielgud, Katherine Cornell, Maude Adams and Minnie Maddern Fiske.

He was a founder and one-time president of The Actors' Equity Association and a member of The Lambs and the Actor's fund of America.{{Citation needed |date=September 2024}}

Byron appeared many times at the Lakewood Playhouse in Maine.{{Citation needed |date=September 2024}}

Personal life and death

Byron was married to Kathryn Keyes, and they had two daughters and a son.{{cite news |last1=Babcock |first1=Muriel |title=Bravos ring out nightly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84780775/arthur-byron/ |access-date=September 5, 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 18, 1930 |page=Part III 11|via = Newspapers.com}} He died of a heart ailment, from which he suffered for some years, in Hollywood in 1943. He was cremated and his ashes were sent to the Byron summer home in Maine.{{cite magazine |date=July 31, 1943 |page=36 |title=The Final Curtain |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT35&dq=Arthur%20Byron%20intitle%3ABillboard&pg=PT35#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Byron%20intitle:Billboard&f=true |accessdate=September 15, 2024 }}

Selected filmography

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References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0126365}}
  • {{IBDB name|14342}}
  • [http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/sayre/searchterm/arthur%20byron/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/cosuppress/ Arthur Byron] portrait gallery at the University of Washington
  • [https://broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/arthur-byron Broadway Photographs](Univ. of S. Carolina)

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Category:1872 births

Category:1943 deaths

Category:American male film actors

Category:Male actors from Brooklyn

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:Presidents of the Actors' Equity Association