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Lunt, Alfred

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Lunt, Alfred (1892–1977), American actor, who made his début in Boston in 1912 and had his first big success in 1919, playing the title-role in Booth Tarkington's Clarence . In 1922 he married Lynn Fontanne [ Lillie Louise Fontanne ] (1887–1983), who after studying with Ellen Terry and making her début in pantomime in 1905 had pursued a successful stage career in London and New York. The Lunts first appeared together in Kester's Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1923). They then joined the Theatre Guild company, and over the next five years were in a succession of ...

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