Bertram Marburgh
actor, writer
- Birth name:
- Bertram Albert Marburgh
- Born:
- 1875-05-17, New York City, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1956-08-22, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, writer
Biography
Seventeen May 1875 cracked open over lower Manhattan, and somewhere amid the clatter of horse-drawn cabs a boy named Bertram Marburgh drew his first breath. By the time reels replaced gaslights he had slipped into the flickering new world of motion pictures, lending his face and pen to stories that moved. Audiences first noticed him in the 1915 comedy “Marrying Money,” later felt the wartime tension of “The Eagle’s Eye” (1918), and finally shuddered at his noose-bound doctor in the Boris Karloff thriller “Before I Hang” (1940). When the final curtain fell on 22 August 1956, Marburgh’s last scene played out quietly in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, closing a life bookended by the Atlantic roar of New York and the sun-settled corridors of a California veterans’ home.
