Bert Swor
{{short description|American minstrel performer (1871–1943)}}
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Bertie Odell Swor, Sr. (January 9, 1871 – November 30, 1943) was a minstrel show performer.
Biography
He was born on January 9, 1871, in Paris, Tennessee, to Albert Gallatin Swor and Susan Martha Boyd. He started a vaudeville act with his brother, John Francis Swor. When Moran and Mack were temporarily estranged, he worked with George Moran as part of the Two Black Crows routine.
He married Amy B. Archer (1911–1974) around 1894 and they had a child, Bert O'Dell Swor, Jr. (1895–1931).
He performed with the minstrel show of Al G. Fields from 1911 to 1931. In 1931, he was in the Broadway show Brass Ankle.
He retired in 1931. A benefit was given in his honor in Dallas, Texas, in April 1941.
He died in a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on December 1, 1943.{{cite news |title=Bert Swor, 65, Dies. Old-Time Minstrel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/12/01/archives/bert-swor-65-dies-oldtime-minstrel.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 1, 1943 |access-date=2015-01-26 }} His widow married Jack Norworth in 1951.{{cite news |title=Jack Norworth Weds at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/10/23/archives/jack-norworth-weds-at-72.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 23, 1951 |access-date=2015-01-27 }}
Films
- A Colorful Sermon (1928)
- The Carnation Kid (1929)
- Why Bring That Up? (1929)
- Rainbow's End (1938)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0842887|Bert Swor}}
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Category:19th-century American male actors
Category:19th-century people from Tennessee
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:20th-century people from Tennessee
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:American vaudeville performers
Category:Blackface minstrel performers
Category:Broadway theatre people