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Theodore Burt Sayre
1874–1954
A playwright, novelist, and screenwriter active from the late 1890s into the early film era, he moved easily between Broadway and popular fiction. His work includes the novel Tom Moore and stage writing for producers and actors of his day.
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About the author
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 18, 1874, Theodore Burt Sayre built a career across several kinds of writing. Reference sources describe him as an American author and playwright, and records of his books show titles including Two Summer Girls and I and Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance, Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet.
Sayre also worked in the theater world. Biographical listings note that he was a play reader and critic for producer Charles Frohman, and Broadway databases credit him as a writer on productions from the 1890s onward. His career later reached silent film as well, with screen credit for The Commanding Officer.
He died in New York in November 1954. Although he is not widely remembered today, the surviving record suggests a writer who was comfortably at home in commercial theater, fiction, and early screen storytelling.