George Beban
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George Beban (The Theatre Magazine; 1915)
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December 13, 1873 San Francisco, California, USA |
| Died | October 5, 1928 (aged 54) Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1915 to 1926 |
| Spouse(s) | Edith MacBride |
George Beban (December 13, 1873 – October 5, 1928) was an American actor, director, writer and producer. Beban began as a child performer in San Francisco, California, and became a well-known vaudevillian and stage actor in the 1890s and 1900s. He was best known for his portrayal of Italian immigrant characters, including his starring roles in the play The Sign of the Rose and the 1915 silent film classic The Italian. Though strongly associated with his Italian immigrant roles, Beban was born in San Francisco, could not speak a word of Italian and was the son of parents from Dalmatia (in modern-day Croatia) and Ireland.
Beban was born in San Francisco, California in 1873. He grew up on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and was one of four sons of Rocco Beban, a Dalmatian immigrant, and Johanna Dugan, from County Cork, Ireland. At age eight, he began a stage career singing with the Reed and Emerson Minstrels. His talent as a singer led to the young Beban acquiring the nickname "The Boy Baritone". He then acted in juvenile roles for the California Theater stock company in San Francisco.
At age 22, Beban began a career as a Broadway theater actor in New York. He appeared in several musical comedies and performed with Weber & Fields and with Marie Cahill. Beban's stage credits include Parrot and Monkey Time (1896), a minstrel feature at Sam T. Jack's Theater;A Modern Venus (1898), a burlesque playing at Sam T. Jack's Theater;A Trip to Buffalo (1902); Nancy Brown (1903); Fantana (1905); Moonshine (1905–06), a production of the Marie Cahill company;About Town (1906), a musical comedy by the Lew Fields All Star Company about life in Paris;The Great Decide (1906); The Girl Behind the Counter (1907–1908); The American Idea (1908), a musical comedy by George M. Cohan;Hokey-pokey (1912); and Anna Held's All Star Variete Jubilee (1913–1914).
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