Gaston Bell

George Gaston Bell (September 27, 1877 – December 13, 1963) was an American stage and film actor active over the early decades of the twentieth century.

Early life and career

Bell was born in 1877 at Boston, Massachusetts to George and Elizabeth Bell. His acting career began in 1902 as a member of Charles Frohman’s theatrical organization shortly after his graduation from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. In 1903 Bell toured in Hall Caine’s 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. Vincent’s Our New Man, and in the spring of 1905 he replaced William Courtenay as Little Billee in Trilby at New York’s New Amsterdam Theatre. The next season Bell played one of the three suitors in Clara Lipman’s Julie Bonbon. and on New Year’s Eve, 1906 he began a long run on Broadway and on the road playing Horace Pettingill in Brewster's Millions. In 1910 Bell toured with the Columbia Stock Company performing in such plays as Clyde Fitche’s Girls as the misanthrope Frank Loot, and the supporting role Bryce Forrester in Caught in the Rain by William Collier, Sr. and Grant Stewart. Bell’s last known Broadway performance was in the comedy Seven Sisters which ran for 32 performances at the Lyceum Theatre in February and March, 1911 before embarking on its road tour.