Frederick Warde
Frederick Barkham Warde (1851–1935) was an English Shakesperian actor who relocated to the United States in the late 19th century.
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| Born | Frederick Barkham Warde February 23, 1851 Wardington, Oxfordshire, England, U.K. |
| Died | February 7, 1935 (aged 83) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. |
| Occupation | Stage and Film Actor |
In the late 1870s he partnered with actor Maurice Barrymore and the two agreed to tour plays around the United States. Warde would have one section of the country while Barrymore and his company toured the other. For a time the venture was very successful. Warde had two notable film achievements, one being the "discovery" of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and persuading him to move from Denver to join Warde's New York City actors troupe. The second achievement was as the star of Richard III (1912), based on the play by William Shakespeare. This 55-minute film was re-discovered in 1996 by a private film collector who donated it to the American Film Institute archive. The film is thought to be the earliest surviving American feature film. In 1916 Warde filmed another Shakespearean tragedy, King Lear, for the Thanhouser company. This film also exists.[1] In 1917 he appeared in a Pathe film Under False Colors with an up and coming beauty named Jeanne Eagels.[2] Another of his films was A Lover's Oath (filmed in 1921 and premiered four years later), opposite Ramon Novarro, in which he portrayed Omar Khayyám. It is regarded as a lost film.
Warde also recorded an early sound film Frederick Warde Reads Poem, A Sunset Reverie (1921) which was made in the short-lived sound-on-disc Phono-Kinema process.
[edit] References
- ^ King Lear silentera.com website
- ^ PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SILENT FILM by Daniel Blum c. 1953 pgs. 98 & 136
[edit] External links
- Frederick Warde at the Internet Movie Database
- Frederick Warde at IBDb.com
- Frederick Warde: North American Theater Online biography and photos
- Warde, Frederick, The Fools of Shakespeare: An Interpretation of Their Wit, Wisdom and Personalities (New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913) 214 pages
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