H.A. Saintsbury was born on December 18, 1869 in Chelsea, London, England. He was an actor, known for The Valley of Fear (1916). He died on June 19, 1939 in London.
One of the first two actors (the other was Julian Royce) to portray Sherlock Holmes on stage. By 1905, he had played him 936 times, but he made only the one film appearance in 1915.