Aubrey Lyles

Aubrey Lyles
A magazine cover from 1921, Dramatic Mirror, featuring a drawing of Miller & Lyles, two Black men with short dark hair, drawn in black, grey, white, and red
Miller and Lyles on the cover of Dramatic Mirror (June 25, 1921), drawn by Charles Gordon Saxton
Born8 January 1884
Jackson, Tennessee
Died28 July 1932
New York City
Occupation(s)Vaudeville performer, playwright, songwriter, lyricist

Aubrey Lee Lyles (8 January 1884 – 28 July 1932), sometimes credited as A. L. Lyles, was an American vaudeville performer, playwright, songwriter, and lyricist. He appeared with Flournoy E. Miller as Miller and Lyles as a popular African-American comedy duo from 1905 until shortly before his death. in 1929 they appeared on film as grocers in the Vitaphone Varieties short comedy film They Know Their Groceries.