American playwright and theater actor
Joseph Byron Totten was a playwright and an actor in theater and silent films in the United States. He also directed films for Vitagraph.
He was an actor for Essanay. He had a 47 acre farm in Pendleton Hill, Connecticut where he kept horses, cattle, and a kennel.
He wrote "No Gold Could Buy Her", "No One Pity Her", "The Cowboy and the Squaw", "The Ranchman's Daughter", "The Queen of the Cowboys", and "The First Lady in the Land", both copyrighted in 1907. He wrote the play "Spook House". He wrote "The Forger", "a society problem play", copyrightednin 1908. He wrote and directed "Lighthouse by the Sea", cooyrighted in 1915. He also cooyrighted the 3-reel, 3-act, "The Boys Will Be Boys" in 1915.
He wrote the play "The World and a Woman".
He wrote a dramatization of Harold McGrath's novel "The Woman Armsan". It was staged in 1915. He wrote and staged "Love's Call". He was described as having a "primitive passion for triplicate nomenclature".
He wrote the words to the song "Piquita" with music by Arthur Bergh, copyrighted in 1925.
In 1917 he starred in "Some Crooks".
In 1925, Charles Sidney Gilpin starred in his play "So That's That".
He was a member of the Authors League of America.
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