From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Morton Selten 6 January 1860 27 July 1939 was a British stage and film actor He was occasionally credited as Morton Selton Given the name Morton Richard Stubbs at birth and claimed as the son of Morton Stubbs it was generally acknowledged that Selten was an illegitimate son of the then Prince of Wales and future King Edward VII He began acting on the stage in 1878 mainly in America In 1889 Selten played Clarence Vane in Mrs Hargroves Our Flat at the Lyceum Theatre and Captain Heartsease in Bronson Howards American Civil War epic Shenandoah He would go on to play in some twentyfive Broadway productions over the following three decades His film career began in the 1920s He appeared in Branded in 1921 His last film role was the King of the Land of Legend in the 1940 Alexander Korda production The Thief of Bagdad Selten died during filming