Morton Selten
Actor
Biography
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Morton Selten (6 January 1860 – 27 July 1939) was a British stage and film actor. He was occasionally credited as Morton Selton.
Given the name Morton Richard Stubbs at birth, and claimed as the son of Morton Stubbs, it was generally acknowledged that Selten was an illegitimate son of the then Prince of Wales (and future King Edward VII).
He began acting on the stage in 1878, mainly in America. In 1889, Selten played Clarence Vane in Mrs. Hargrove's Our Flat at the Lyceum Theatre and Captain Heartsease in Bronson Howard's American Civil War epic, Shenandoah. He would go on to play in some twenty-five Broadway productions over the following three decades. His film career began in the 1920s. He appeared in Branded in 1921. His last film role was the King of the Land of Legend in the 1940 Alexander Korda production The Thief of Bagdad. Selten died during filming.
Filmography
Fire Over England
as Lord Burleigh 1937
The Ghost Goes West
as The Glourie 1935
The Divorce of Lady X
as Lord Steele 1938
Juggernaut
as Sir Charles Clifford 1936
A Yank at Oxford
as Cecil Davidson, Esq. 1938
Young Man's Fancy
as Mr. Fothergill 1939
Wedding Rehearsal
as Major Harry Wroxbury 1932
Once in a New Moon
as Lord Bravington 1935
Moscow Nights
as General Kovrin 1934
Service for Ladies
as Mr. Robertson 1932
Shipyard Sally
as Lord Alfred Randall 1939
In the Soup
as Abernethy Ruppershaw 1936
Falling for You
as Caldicott 1933
Ten Minute Alibi
as Sir Miles Standish 1935
Action for Slander
as Judge Trotter (as Morton Selton) 1937
Annie, Leave the Room!
as Lord Spendlove 1935