 By that time Farquhar and he had divorced, and in May 1914 Bergen married fellow Broadway performer Elsie Esmond née Sturkow (1880–1958).They were the leading man and lady in most of the early Whartons Studio movies (shot in Ithaca, New York), including "The Boundary Rider ", "The Kiss of Death", "A Prince of India", "The Fireman and the Girl" and "The Stolen Birthright " (all still in 1914) and The Lottery Man of 1916.After 1920, he returned to the stage and performed on Broadway as late as 1940, when he appears in the census as a single theater actor living in an apartment in Manhattan, New York.