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Sidney Rankin Drew (September 19, 1891 – May 19, 1918) was an American actor and film director.
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew were an American comedy team on stage and screen. The team initially consisted of Sidney Drew (August 28, 1863 – April 9, 1919) and his first wife Gladys Rankin (October 8, 1870 – January 9, 1914).
S. Rankin Drew. Actor: The Belle of the Season. Silent film actor and director, son of Sidney Drew and his first wife, Mrs. Sidney Drew, and first cousin of actors John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Ethel Barrymore.
- September 19, 1891
- May 19, 1918
There was a young movie actor-director who died in the Lafayette Corps, and his name was Sidney Rankin Drew. He was a good friend and colleague of Frank Morgan's and died in 1918. I have a picture of Sidney Rankin Drew from a circa 1920 book on the Lafayette Escadrille which also has a page of information on him.
Silent film actor and director, son of Sidney Drew and his first wife, Mrs. Sidney Drew, and first cousin of actors John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Ethel Barrymore. Although his famous parents had hoped for him to choose another career than the theatre and sent him to military school, the draw of the family tradition was too strong.
S. Rankin Drew. Actor: The Belle of the Season. Silent film actor and director, son of Sidney Drew and his first wife, Mrs. Sidney Drew, and first cousin of actors John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Ethel Barrymore.
Sidney Drew (1863-1919) Actor. Director. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. His mother claimed he was adopted, perhaps because her husband had been away touring for several years before Sidney's birth and was dead before the great event took place.
