Lean, Cecil

Cecil Worthington Starr Lean was born in London, Ontario, and moved to Detroit as a child. He later moved to Chicago where he began his acting career in a sting of musical comedies at the La Salle Theater. He married in the Little Church Around the Corner in Manhattan, then later divorced in 1913. In the course of his acting career he was frequently associated with Lamb Flo Ziegfeld. He collapsed and died in front of a theater in Manhattan.  Obituary.

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