Ralph Lewis (actor)


Ralph Percy Lewis was an American actor of the silent film era.
Born in 1872 in Englewood, Illinois, Lewis attended Northwestern University.
Lewis appeared in 160 films between 1912 and 1938. The character actor remains perhaps best remembered for his role as abolitionist U.S. Representative Austin Stoneman in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and the governor in Intolerance. Lewis's film debut came in 1912. He also starred in one of the early Hollywood sound shorts, Gaunt, in 1931. He was married to actress Vera Lewis.
Lewis died in Los Angeles, California, on December 4, 1937, after being hit on November 25, 1937, by a limousine driven by a chauffeur working for Jack L. Warner.

Filmography

The Great Leap: Until Death Do Us Part Home, Sweet Home The Escape as The SenatorThe Avenging Conscience as The Detective The Floor Above as JeromeThe Birth of a Nation as Hon. Austin Stoneman, Leader of the HouseThe Wolf Man as Hilbert Grinde, 'The Wolf Man'Jordan Is a Hard Road as Jim StarbuckLet Katie Do It as Uncle Dan StandishMartha's Vindication as Deacon HuntThe Flying Torpedo as Head of the BoardMacbeth as BanquoGoing Straight as John RemingtonHell-to-Pay Austin as Dad DawsonGretchen the Greenhorn as Jan Van HouckIntolerance as The GovernorA Sister of Six as Caleb WinthropThe Children Pay as Theodore Ainsley, the Girls' FatherA Tale of Two Cities as Roger ClyHer Temptation as Ralph StuartThe Silent Lie as HatfieldJack and the Beanstalk as Francis' FatherThis Is the Life as Count Herman von NuttenbergCheating the Public as John DowlingRevenge as 'Sudden' DuncanThe Kid Is Clever as Jazzbando BoullionFires of Youth as John LinforthThe Talk of the Town The Dub as Frederick BlatchThe Long Lane's Turning as Gov. EvelandThe Mother and the Law as The GovernorThe Valley of the Giants as Col. PenningtonThe Hoodlum as Alexander GuthrieEyes of Youth as Robert GoringWhen the Clouds Roll By as Curtis BrownWhat Women Love as James King Cotton813 as Robert CastlebackOutside the Law as Silent MaddenCommon Sense as Dan BowersPrisoners of Love as Her FatherMan, Woman & Marriage as The FatherSowing the Wind as BrabazonSalvage as Cyrus RidgewayA Private Scandal as Phillip LawtonThe Conquering Power as Pere GrandetThe $5 Baby as Ben ShapinskyIn the Name of the Law as Patrick O'HaraFlesh and Blood as Fletcher BurtonThe Sin Flood as FraserBroad Daylight as Peter FayEnvironment as Diamond Jim FavreThe Third Alarm as Dan McDowellThe Fog as Johnathan ForgeThe West~Bound Limited as Bill BuckleyVengeance of the Deep as Captain MusgroveTea: With a Kick! as Jim DayDesire as De Witt HarlanBlow Your Own Horn as Nicholas SmallThe Mailman as Bob MorleyUntamed Youth as Joe ArdisThe Man Who Came Back as Thomas PotterDante's Inferno as The Man, Mortimer JuddIn Every Woman's Life as CaptainEast of Broadway as CommissionerThe Bridge of Sighs as William CraigWho Cares as Grandfather LudlowThe Million Dollar Handicap as John PorterThe Re-Creation of Brian Kent as Homer WardThe Overland Limited as Ed BartonHeir-Loons One of the Bravest as John KellyThe Last Edition as Tom McDonaldThe Lady from Hell as Earl of KennetShadow of the Law as BrophyFascinating Youth as John WardBigger Than Barnum's as Peter BlandinThe Block Signal as 'Jovial Joe' RyanThe False Alarm as Fighting John CaseyThe Silent Power as John RollinsHeld by the Law as George TravisThe Sunset Derby as Sam GibsonThe Shield of Honor as Dan MacDowellCasey Jones as Casey JonesOutcast Souls as John Turner