Gaston Bell

George Gaston Bell was an American stage and film actor active over the early decades of the twentieth century.

Bell was born in 1877 at Boston, Massachusetts to George and Elizabeth Bell. His acting career began in 1902 as a member of Charles Frohmans theatrical organization shortly after his graduation from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. In 1903 Bell toured in Hall Caines The Christian as Horatio Drake with a troop headed by Lionel Adams and Bianca West. The following year he supported Harry Beresford in Charles T. Vincents Our New Man, and in the spring of 1905 he replaced William Courtenay as Little Billee in Trilby at New Yorks New Amsterdam Theatre. The next season Bell played one of the three suitors in Clara Lipmans Julie Bonbon. and on New Years Eve, 1906 he began a long run on Broadway and on the road playing Horace Pettingill in Brewsters Millions. In 1910 Bell toured with the Columbia Stock Company performing in such plays as Clyde Fitches Girls as the misanthrope Frank Loot, and the supporting role Bryce Forrester in Caught in the Rain by William Collier, Sr. and

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