Harry Mestayer

{{short description|American actor}}

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Harry Tweed Mestayer (1876–1958){{Cite web |title=Harry Mestayer (1876-1958) - Find A Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11244374/harry-mestayer |access-date=2020-06-16 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}} was an actor in silent films and theatrical productions in the U.S. He had leading roles and was a supporting actor in more than two dozen films and numerous theaterical productions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/harry-mestayer-68315|title=Harry Mestayer – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}} He performed in California,{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tO5DAQAAIAAJ&q=Harry+Mestayer&pg=PA88|title=Theatre Magazine|date=May 11, 1911|publisher=Theatre Magazine Company|via=Google Books}} was in several hits in Chicago{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BjkERWIbjI8C&q=Harry+Mestayer&pg=RA1-PA75|title=Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New|date=May 11, 1911|publisher=Land of Sunshine Publishing Company|via=Google Books}} and performed on Broadway.

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He was the son of Shakespearean actor Charles H. Mestayer and had several actors in his family.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ed45AQAAMAAJ&q=Harry+Mestayer&pg=PA282|title=The World To-Day|date=May 11, 1911|publisher=Current Encyclopedia Company|via=Google Books}} He was married to actress Victory Bateman from 1901 to 1905,{{cite news |title=Personal Mention |url=https://archive.org/details/sanfrandram12sanf/page/n383/mode/2up |work=The San Francisco Dramatic Review |date=February 17, 1900 |page=5}}{{cite news |title=Wine Brings Woe to Them; Harry Mestayer Is Divorced From Actress Known on Stage as Victory Bateman |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19050603.2.148&srpos |work=The San Francisco Call |date=June 3, 1905 |page=16}} and to Jessie D. Lockwood, a non-professional, from 1908 to 1924.{{cite news |title=Harry Mestayer Married |url=https://archive.org/details/sanfrandram1908sanf/mode/2up |work=The San Francisco Dramatic Review |date=May 2, 1908 |page=9}}{{cite news |title=The Mestayers are in Coast Divorce |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1924-04-16_74_9/mode/2up |work=Variety |volume=74 |issue=9 |date=16 April 1924 |page=11 |language=English}}

The Museum of the City of New York has several photographs of him in acting roles.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.mcny.org/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=24UP1GMHYW76Z|title=Museum of the City of New York - Search Result|website=collections.mcny.org}}