Anecdotes

Leading man who later in his career found his niche as a character actor.

Associated with D.W. Griffith in early silent films, often cast as brawny types. Played various tough authority figures in the 1920s and 1930s. Was memorable as the prison warden in Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's Sous les verrous (1931), the comedy team's first full-length feature film.

Son, with Bess Meredyth, John Meredyth Lucas.

Off-screen pseudonym: Alexander Harvey

Became a movie actor after 22 years on stage.

His lead role in Acquitted (1916) won him outstanding player awards from several movie magazines.

He's listed in the studio records/casting call lists for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) but didn't appear and isn't recognizable in the film.

He joined the Keystone Studios with Mack Sennett in the mid 1920's where he directed Mary Pickford and Marie Dressler among others.

He appeared in more than 400 films, although no television, many as a lead actor, over 30 years.

Wilfred J. Lucas was actually born in Norfolk, Ontario, and not Grimsby, Ontario, being a wholly different location, a common mistake with respect to birth locations of a number of performers.

Two children, Alice and Kirke, with Alice Louise Lucas. All three were living in London at the time Alice Louise was granted a divorce on the grounds of desertion.