The son of New Orleans suffragette and authoress Elizabeth Lyle Saxon (1932-1915), silver-haired Hugh Saxon began his long show business career after running away with a circus. He later toured the world with such stellar names as Thomas W. Keene, Henry Dixey, and Marie Wainwright, and performed extensively in vaudeville. Onscreen, Saxon was mainly seen in programmers but played the butler in both Her Five Foot Highness (1920) and Cytherea (1924). A bit player after the advent of sound, the veteran actor was the father of Louisiana author (Lafitte, the Pirate) Lyle Saxon (1891-1946).