Lewis Morrison

{{Short description|Black and Jewish Jamaican-American actor (1844–1906)}}

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| name = Lewis Morrison

| image = Lewis Morrison, stage actor.jpg

| caption = Lewis Morrison in 1894

| birth_name = Morris W. Morris

| birth_date = September 4, 1844

| birth_place = Jamaica, West Indies

| death_date = August 18, 1906 (aged 61)

| death_place =

| occupation = Actor

| spouse = Rose Wood (married 1877–1890)
Florence Roberts (married 1892–1906)

| children = 3, including Adrienne Morrison

| relatives =

}}

Lewis Morrison (September 4, 1844 – August 18, 1906) was a Jamaican-born American stage actor and theatrical manager, born Moritz (or Morris) W. Morris. He was best known for his portrayal of Mephistopheles in his own production of Faust, which he performed from 1885 to 1906. He was the father of actress Adrienne Morrison, and grandfather of Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett.{{cite book |editor1-last=Berlin |editor1-first=Ira |editor2-last=Reidy |editor2-first=Joseph P. |editor3-last=Rowland |editor3-first=Leslie S. |date=1982 |title=Freedom: Series II: The Black Military Experience: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861–1867) |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521229845 |page=310 }}{{cite book|title=The Bennett Playbill|url=https://archive.org/details/bennettplaybill00benn|url-access=registration|first=Joan|last=Bennett|author2=Lois Kibbee|author2-link=Lois Kibbee|year=1970|location=New York|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |isbn=978-0-03-081840-0 |oclc=100769}}

File:Lewis Morrison, stage actor (SAYRE 7017).jpg in Faust]]