Wilbur Higby

Wilbur Higby (August 21, 1867 – December 1, 1934) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1914 and 1934.

Stage
In the mid-1890s, Higby was a member of the stock company of the Grand Opera House in Boston, Massachusetts. Later in the 1890s and into the early 1900s, he performed with other stock groups in a variety of locales such as York, Pennsylvania; Rochester, New York; and Brooklyn, New York.

By 1903, Higby had his own troupe, the Wilbur Higby Dramatic Company, which was described in a newspaper article as "one of the highest class repertoire organizations in this country." Within four years, however, the Higby Company had apparently ceased to exist. A 1907 newspaper article described Higby as "leading man with the Morey Stock Co. this season."

Later life
Higby's daughter, Mary Jane Higby, was an actress in television and old-time radio who made one film appearance, as Janet Fay in The Honeymoon Killers. Higby died in Hollywood, California in 1934, aged 67, from pneumonia.

Selected filmography

 * Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery (1914)
 * The Master Key (1914)
 * The Mysterious Rose (1914)
 * At the Stroke of the Angelus (1915) (short)
 * Hoodoo Ann (1916)
 * Mixed Blood (1916)
 * Diane of the Follies (1916)
 * The Mainspring (1916)
 * Might and the Man (1917)
 * The Medicine Man (1917)
 * Wild Sumac (1917)
 * The Tar Heel Warrior (1917)
 * A Girl of the Timber Claims (1917)
 * An Old-Fashioned Young Man (1917)
 * The Midnight Man (1917) as John Hardin
 * I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
 * True Heart Susie (1919)
 * Nugget Nell (1919)
 * Brass Buttons (1919)
 * The Mayor of Filbert (1919)
 * The Terror (1920)
 * The Jailbird (1920)
 * The Price of Redemption (1920)
 * Desert Blossoms (1921)
 * Play Square (1921)
 * Live Wires (1921)
 * The Third Alarm  (1922)
 * Do and Dare (1922)
 * The Ladder Jinx (1922)
 * The Love Trap (1923)
 * Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
 * The Flaming Forties (1924)
 * Confessions of a Queen (1925)
 * Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
 * God's Great Wilderness (1927)
 * Morals for Women (1931)
 *  St. Louis Woman (1934)