Ralph Lewis (actor)

Ralph Percy Lewis (October 8, 1872 – December 4, 1937) was an American actor of the silent film era.[1]

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Ralph Lewis
Lewis in The Hoodlum (1919)
Born	Ralph Percy Lewis (1872-10-08)October 8, 1872 Englewood, Illinois, U.S.
Died	December 4, 1937(1937-12-04) (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1912–1937
Spouse	Vera Lewis
Children	1

Born in 1872 in Englewood, Illinois, Lewis attended Northwestern University.[2]

Lewis appeared in 160 films between 1912 and 1938. The character actor remains perhaps best remembered for his role as abolitionist U.S. Representative Austin Stoneman in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the governor in Intolerance (1916). Lewis's film debut came in 1912.[2] He also starred in one of the early Hollywood sound shorts, Gaunt, in 1931.[3] He was married to actress Vera Lewis.[4]

Lewis died in Los Angeles, California, on December 4, 1937, after being hit on November 25, 1937, by a limousine driven by a chauffeur working for Jack L. Warner.[5]