{{short description|American actor (1868–1958)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Sheldon Lewis | image = Sheldon Lewis 1921.jpg | caption = ''Wid's Year Book'', 1921 | birth_date = {{birth date|1868|4|20}} | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1958|5|7|1868|4|20}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, US | years_active = 1914–1936 | spouse = {{Marriage|Virginia Pearson|April 24, 1911|1928|end=div.}} | occupation = Actor }}
'''Sheldon Lewis''' (April 20, 1868 – May 7, 1958) was an American actor of the silent era best known for his antagonistic roles.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZRRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA393 |title=A Chat With a Would-Be Villain |first=Rose |last=Cummings |magazine=Theatre Magazine |volume=XXIX |number=220 |page=393 |date=June 1919 |access-date=2024-06-24 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He appeared in more than 90 films from 1914 to 1936.
==Biography== Sheldon Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married actress Virginia Pearson on April 24, 1911.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal-miss-pearson-married/149971824/ |title=Miss Pearson Married |newspaper=Courier Journal |publication-place=Louisville, Kentucky |page=6 |date=1911-04-27 |access-date=2024-06-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> They were divorced in 1928. An Associated Press news brief about the divorce said that Pearson accused Lewis of "jealousy, ill temper and abuse."<ref>{{cite news |title=Virginia Pearson Gets Divorce |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1928-03-29_77_25632/page/n17/mode/1up |access-date=2024-06-24 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=March 29, 1928 |page=18 |id={{ProQuest|104594863}} |via=Internet Archive |place=Los Angeles}}</ref> However, Pearson's obituary in ''The New York Times'' wrote "throughout the remaining years of their lives, they remained constant companions."<ref name=":0" /> The obituary indicated that the divorce was obtained because in that era marriage diminished a female film star's box-office appeal.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=Virginia Pearson dies |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/114580310 |access-date=December 19, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |publication-date=June 10, 1958 |page=33|id={{ProQuest|114580310}} |date=1958-06-09 |place=Hollywood, California |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
He starred in the 1907 Broadway production of ''The Primrose Path''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-a-play-that-offers-to/195237486/|title=A Play That Offers Topic for Debate|work=The New York Times|date= May 7, 1907|page= 9}}</ref>
Lewis died in Los Angeles on May 7th, 1958.<ref name=LATimesObit>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-obituaries-sheldo/149972121/ |title=Obituaries: Sheldon Lewis |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=79 |date=1958-05-09 |access-date=2024-06-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/inst/discoveries/PfRecord?emailId=N-73932784-23ee-40b8-a023-c592392bc13b&collectionId=5180&recordId=4297042&ahsht=2024-06-24%2016:48:32&language=&ahsh=3463a3322d32dee0969eb22ab2462cc5 |title=Sheldon Lewis |publisher=California Death Index |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240624-165107/https://www.ancestry.com/inst/discoveries/PfRecord?emailId=N-73932784-23ee-40b8-a023-c592392bc13b&collectionId=5180&recordId=4297042&ahsht=2024-06-24%2016:48:32&language=&ahsh=3463a3322d32dee0969eb22ab2462cc5 |archive-date=2024-06-24 |url-status=live |access-date=2024-06-24 |via=Ancestry.com}}</ref> His interment was at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park.<ref name=LATimesObit/>
==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''The Exploits of Elaine'' (1914) * ''An Affair of Three Nations'' (1915) * ''The Menace of the Mute'' (1915) * ''The House of Fear'' (1915) * ''The Iron Claw'' (1916) * ''The Hidden Hand'' (1917) * ''The Bishop's Emeralds'' (1919) * ''The Silent Barrier'' (1920) * ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1920) * ''Orphans of the Storm'' (1921) * ''When the Desert Calls'' (1922) * ''Jacqueline'' (1923) * ''The Little Red Schoolhouse'' (1923) * ''The Enemy Sex'' (1924) * ''In Fast Company'' (1924) * ''The Dangerous Flirt'' (1924) * ''Those Who Dare'' (1924) * ''Missing Daughters'' (1924) * ''The Sporting Chance'' (1925) * ''Fighting the Flames'' (1925) * ''Accused'' (1925) * ''The Top of the World'' (1925) * ''Bashful Buccaneer'' (1925) * ''New Lives for Old'' (1925) * ''The Lure of the Track'' (1925) * ''With Kit Carson Over the Great Divide'' (1925) * ''Super Speed'' (1925) * ''The Mysterious Stranger'' (1925) * ''Silent Sanderson'' (1925) * ''Beyond the Trail'' (1926) * ''Exclusive Rights'' (1926) * ''Señor Daredevil'' (1926) * ''The Self Starter'' (1926) * ''The Two-Gun Man'' (1926) * ''With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail'' (1926) * ''Don Juan'' (1926) * ''A Desperate Moment'' (1926) * ''Moran of the Mounted'' (1926) * ''Life of an Actress'' (1927) * ''Born to Battle'' (1927) * ''The Cruise of the Hellion'' (1927) * ''Hazardous Valley'' (1927) * ''Driven from Home'' (1927) * ''The Ladybird'' (1927) * ''Turn Back the Hours'' (1928) * ''Top Sergeant Mulligan'' (1928) * ''The Chorus Kid'' (1928) * ''The Little Wild Girl'' (1928) * ''The Code of the Scarlet'' (1928) * ''The River Woman'' (1928) * ''Marlie the Killer'' (1928) * ''Tarzan the Tiger'' (1929) * ''Untamed Justice'' (1929) * ''Black Magic'' (1929) * ''Terry of the Times'' (1930) * ''Firebrand Jordan'' (1930) * ''Riders of the Rio'' (1931) * ''The Monster Walks'' (1932) * ''Tombstone Canyon'' (1932) {{Div col end}}
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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{IMDb name|id=0507752|name=Sheldon Lewis}} *{{IBDB name|id=49724}}
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