Lester H. Cuneo (October 25, 1888 – November 1, 1925) was an American stage and silent film actor. He began acting in live theatre while still in his teens. Early years Born in Chicago, Illinois, Cuneo attended Culver Military Academy and was a law student at Northwestern University when he turned to acting. Career Cuneo's stage career included work with stock theater companies in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Winnepeg. Cuneo began a film career in 1912 with the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company then joined Essanay Studios in 1914. Working in early Hollywood, his popularity increased after he switched from comedic roles to the increasingly popular western film genre. However, his career was temporarily interrupted when he served with the United States Army during World War I. He served in France in 1917-1919 with the 33rd Division from Illinois. At war's end, Lester Cuneo returned to film and in the early 1920s set up his own production company making primarily western films. Personal life He married actress Francelia Billington in 1920 and had two children. The two made fourteen films together before their divorce in October 1925. Death Despondent over the breakdown of his marriage and the downhill slide of his film career, Lester Cuneo took his own life with a gunshot to the head in 1925. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His year of death is printed on his gravemarker as 1926 which contradicts 1925, the year usually given. Filmography Sons of the North Woods (1912) According to Law (1912) The Double Cross (1912) The Peculiar Nature of the White Man's Burden (1912) An Unexpected Fortune (1912) The Boob (1912) A Cowboy's Mother (1912) The Whiskey Runners (1912) An Equine Hero (1912) – Pete (half-breed) Circumstantial Evidence (1912) – Hort Ingles The Fighting Instinct (1912) The Brand Blotter (1912) The Cattle Rustlers (1912) Why Jim Reformed (1912) A Motorcycle Adventure (1912) The Opium Smugglers (1912) So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law (1912) Jim's Vindication (1912) The Dynamiters (1912) – Joe Thompson Between Love and the Law (1912) Roped In (1912) – The Cowboy The Ranger and His Horse (1912) – Pete Rogers Buck's Romance (1912) – Squaw's Father A Rough Rider With Nitroglycerine (1912) The Gunfighter's Son (1913) The Cowboy Editor (1913) Bud's Heiress (1913) A Canine Matchmaker; or, Leave It to a Dog (1913) How It Happened (1913) Bill's Birthday Present (1913) The