Dick Lee
actor
- Birth name:
- Richard Lawrence Lee
- Born:
- 1872-06-01, New York City, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1931-07-24, New York City, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
A summer baby welcomed to Manhattan on 1 June 1872, Dick Lee grew up amid the clatter of New York’s streets and the glow of its nascent theater marquees. By his twenties he had slipped onto the stage, but it was the flickering silver sheet that made him fleetingly immortal: he sauntered through the schoolboy mischief of Seventeen (1916), schemed among the Riviera elite in White Mice (1926), and played a lovesick dreamer adrift in The Love Nest (1922). Off-camera he shared his life with a woman named Louise—her surname never made the headlines. The city that launched him reclaimed him on 24 July 1931, closing the curtain on a quiet career that still flickers in the corners of silent-film memory.
