- Lucas is recognized as one of the 37 Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. He was very close friends with several others, including Mary Pickford and Mack Sennett.
- Lucas was 5'11" tall.
- In the 1925 book When the Movies Were Young, actress Linda Arvidson called Lucas "The first real grand actor, democratic enough to work in Biograph movies."
- Lucas was married twice. His first marriage ended in divorce. He had two children.
- Lucas was also a part-time screenwriter, and wrote 18 successful film scripts starting in 1910 with Sunshine Sue and continuing until 1924.
- Lucas appeared in 391 films starting in 1908 with the lead in The Greaser's Gauntlet and ending with The Sea Wolf in 1941. He also appeared in 2 more films in archive footage, bringing his total filmography to 393.
- Lucas was a part-time director and directed 46 films starting in 1912 with An Outcast Among Outcasts and ending in 1933, with the film The Sphinx.
