Guy Bates Post
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Guy Bates Post
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| Born |
September 22, 1875 Seattle, Washington |
| Died |
January 16, 1968 (aged 92) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | American actor |
Guy Bates Post (September 22, 1875 – January 16, 1968) was an American character actor who appeared in at least twenty-one Broadway plays and twenty-five Hollywood films over a career that spanned more than fifty years. He was perhaps best remembered in the role of Omar Khayyám in stage and film productions of Richard Walton Tully's Omar the Tentmaker and for his over fifteen hundred performances in John Hunter Booth's The Masquerader.
Guy Bates Post was born in Seattle, Washington, the first of two sons and a daughter (actress Madeline Post) raised by John J. Post and Mary Annette Ostrander. His father, a Canadian of English descent, was a partner in the Seattle lumber firm Stetson and Post. His mother was born in Wisconsin into a family that had originally come west from New York. Post received his education at schools in Seattle and later San Francisco before dropping out of college to embark on a career in theatre.
Post made his professional debut in November 1894 at Chicago’s Schiller Theatre playing a minor role opposite Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter and Kyrle Bellew in Charlotte Corday. By May 1898, Post was a member of Otis Skinner’s Company and married to Sarah Truax, the troupe’s leading lady. His big break came early in 1900 when he was chosen to play David Brandon in Liebler and Company’s Southern American tour of Israel Zangwill’s, The Children of the Ghetto.
Though the tour proved short lived, Post’s performance in The Children of the Ghetto led to such rôles as Rawdon Crowley, in Langdon Miller’s dramatization of the William Makepeace Thackeray novel Vanity Fair; Lieutenant Denton, in Augustus Thomas' Arizona; Robert Racket in the Madeleine Lucette Ryley play My Lady Dainty; and Abbe Tiberge, in Theodore Burt Sayre’s dramatization of the Abbé Prévost short novel Manon Lescaut.
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