Bert Swor
Bertie Odell Swor, Sr. (January 9, 1871 – November 30, 1943) was a minstrel show performer.[1]
Biography
[edit]He was born on January 9, 1871, in Paris, Tennessee, to Albert Gallatin Swor and Susan Martha Boyd. He started a vaudeville act with his brother, John Francis Swor. When Moran and Mack were temporarily estranged, he worked with George Moran as part of the Two Black Crows routine.[1]
He married Amy B. Archer (1911–1974) around 1894 and they had a child, Bert O'Dell Swor, Jr. (1895–1931).
He performed with the minstrel show of Al G. Fields from 1911 to 1931. In 1931, he was in the Broadway show Brass Ankle.[1]
He retired in 1931. A benefit was given in his honor in Dallas, Texas, in April 1941.[1]
He died in a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on December 1, 1943.[1] His widow married Jack Norworth in 1951.[2]
Films
[edit]- A Colorful Sermon (1928)
- The Carnation Kid (1929)
- Why Bring That Up? (1929)
- Rainbow's End (1938)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "Bert Swor, 65, Dies. Old-Time Minstrel". The New York Times. December 1, 1943. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
- ↑ "Jack Norworth Weds at 72". The New York Times. October 23, 1951. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
External links
[edit]- Bert Swor at IMDb
- Bert Swor at the Internet Broadway Database
- 1871 births
- 1943 deaths
- 19th-century American male actors
- 19th-century people from Tennessee
- 20th-century American male actors
- 20th-century people from Tennessee
- American male film actors
- American male stage actors
- American vaudeville performers
- Blackface minstrel performers
- Broadway theatre people
- Male actors from Tennessee
- People from Paris, Tennessee