Mitchell Lewis
actor
- Birth name:
- Mitchell Joseph Lewis
- Born:
- 1880-06-26, Syracuse, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1956-08-24, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
A Syracuse summer—June 26, 1880—brought Mitchell Lewis into the world, and by the Roaring Twenties he had grown into the kind of screen presence that could anchor a chariot race, seduce a biblical temptress, or quell a mutiny on the high seas. Audiences remember him as the fierce galley prefect in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), the smoldering royal observer of Salomé (1922), and the iron-willed sea captain facing down The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920). Off-camera, life cast him opposite two leading ladies: first Rosabel Morrison, then Nan Frances Ryan. His final curtain fell on August 24, 1956, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, closing a 76-year performance that spanned the birth of American cinema and its golden age.
