Bert Swor

Bertie Odell Swor, Sr. (January 9, 1871 – November 30, 1943) was a minstrel show performer.^[1]

Bert Swor poster circa 1910

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

He retired in 1931. A benefit was given in his honor in Dallas, Texas, in April 1941.^[1]

He died in a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on December 1, 1943.^[1] His widow married Jack Norworth in 1951.^[2]

Films

• A Colorful Sermon (1928)
• The Carnation Kid (1929)
• Why Bring That Up? (1929)
• Rainbow's End (1938)