Biography

Henry Lytton Jr. was born on July 2, 1906 in Chiswick, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Laugh It Off (1940), After Dinner (1938) and The Charlie Chester Show (1949). He was married to Barbara Weale and Jessie Matthews. He died on September 16, 1965 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.

Son of Henry Lytton

During the Christmas period Lytton appeared as a pantomime dame, on one occasion in Goody Two Shoes at the Empire Theatre in Leeds. Other panto appearances included Dame Horner in Jack and Jill (1948-1949) at the Manchester Hippodrome, Dame Horner in Jack and Jill (1951-1952) and Queen Hysteria in Little Miss Muffet (1952-1953; 1958-1959), the latter all at the New Palace Theatre of Varieties in Plymouth.

In 1931 he was touring in the musical Here Comes the Bride opposite Pola Negri.

Henry Lytton Jr. was an English actor and singer who appeared in musical comedy and a few screen roles, and later as a pantomime dame and Ringmaster of the Blackpool Tower Circus.

He was disinherited from his father's will as Lytton Sr. disapproved of his son's marriage to Jessie Matthews and his following a career in the theatre. However, on her death in 1947 he found himself in his mother's will.