Bernard Granville

Bernard R. Granville (July 4, 1888 - October 5, 1936) was an American actor, singer and minstrel show performer who was discovered by Florenz Ziegfeld and was known as "the twentieth century comedian".

Biography
He was born on July 4, 1888, in West Virginia, the only child of Algernon Granville and Cora B Chamberlain Granville (1864-1937).

He started his career as a minstrel show performer with Al G. Field at age 18, in 1906. He worked there until 1911. He worked as a circus clown for Ringling Brothers than went back to a minstrel show with Donnely and Hatfield

He performed in Marriage a la Carte at the La Salle Theater in Chicago, Illinois, in 1911. He performed in A Winsome Widow at the Moulin Rouge in Manhattan, New York City. He then appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912, 1915, and 1916.

He served in World War I as a lieutenant and a pilot in France.

He married Rosina Timponi and they had a daughter Bonita Granville. They later divorced. He next married Eleanor Christie.

He died of pneumonia on October 5, 1936, in Hollywood, California.

Broadway

 * Whistling in the Dark (1932)
 * Castles in the Air (1927) as Monty Blair
 * Earl Carroll's Vanities (1923)
 * Frank Fay's Fables (1922)
 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1920
 * Morris Gest's Midnight Whirl (1919)
 * The Little Blue Devil (1919)
 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1916
 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1915
 * Dancing Around (1914)
 * The Passing Show of 1914
 * The Whirl of the World (1914)
 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1912