Bertram Grassby
actor, writer
- Birth name:
- Bertram Thomas Grassby
- Born:
- 1880-12-23, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Died:
- 1953-12-07, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Professions:
- actor, writer
Biography
A winter baby, Bertram Grassby drew his first breath in Lincolnshire on 23 December 1880 and grew into the kind of quietly magnetic presence that silent-era cameras loved. Between 1919 and 1927 he slipped into skins as varied as the cunning jewel thief in *The Lone Wolf’s Daughter*, the frantic lawyer racing *The Midnight Express*, and the tortured lover of *When a Man Loves*, while also turning his hand to scripts behind the scenes. Off-screen, he shared his life with Gerard Alexander; together they traded foggy English mornings for the desert air of Scottsdale, Arizona, where Grassby’s final curtain fell on 7 December 1953.
