Mitchell Lewis — A Player You Should Know (1925) 🇺🇸

You don’t hear much about Mitchell Lewis, but he has played everything from a North-woods guide to a desert sheik.

You seldom see his face, for it is usually concealed by whiskers. Just now he is cast as the bearded Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur. Like most character actors, Lewis is of theatrical parentage. His father was an opera singer.

Between seasons on the stage, he appeared in hundreds of one and two-reelers, with James Cruze and the late Florence La Badie. The serial, The Million Dollar Mystery, was the first ambitious effort in which he appeared. Since then, excepting an engagement with Nazimova [Alla Nazimova] in Ception Shoals, and, more recently, with The Hairy Ape company, he has remained in the studios. Under Selznick [Lewis J. Selznick] he was starred in a series of successful productions. His main hobby is the study of sociology.

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Photo by: Fred Hartsook (1876–1930)

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, July 1925