Ralph Lewis

Biography

Ralph Percy Lewis was an American actor of the silent film era, born in Englewood, Illinois in 1872 and attending Northwestern University. He appeared in over 160 films between 1912 and 1938, including notable roles as abolitionist U.S. Representative Austin Stoneman in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the governor in Intolerance (1916). Lewis also starred in one of early Hollywood sound shorts, Gaunt, in 1931.