Hobart Bosworth
| Hobart Bosworth | |
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| Born |
August 11, 1867 Marietta, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | December 30, 1943 (aged 76) Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor Film director |
| Years active | 1908–1942 |
| Spouse(s) | Adele Farrington (?–1919) (divorced) Cecile Kibre (1920–1943) (his death) |
| Children | George Hobart Bosworth (b. 1918) |
Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth (August 11, 1867 – December 30, 1943) was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer.
He was born on August 11, 1867 in Marietta, Ohio. He was a descendant of Miles Standish and John and Priscilla Alden on his father's side and of New York's Van Zandt family, the first Dutch settlers to land in the New World, on his mother's side. Bosworth was always proud of his lineage.
After his mother died, his father remarried and young Hobart took a dislike to his stepmother. Considering himself "ill used and cruelly treated", as he told an interviewer in 1914, he ran away to New York City. There he signed on as a cabin boy aboard the Sovereign of the Seas, a clipper ship, and was soon out to sea.
After his first voyage, a five-month trip that took him from New York to San Francisco, Hobart spent his wages on candy. (Sleeping it off on a bench in the park in back of Trinity Church, the young boy didn't know when dozing off that the organ music was being played by his own uncle. A Captain Roberts, who found stevedore work for young Hobart, told him of his uncle's presence in San Francisco.) He continued as a sailor as the sea was in his family's blood, eventually spending three years at sea.
He once told an interviewer, "All my people were of the sea and my father was a naval officer". He spent eleven months on an old fashioned whaler plying the Arctic. Back in San Francisco, he found work at odd jobs. When not otherwise occupied becoming a semi-professional boxer and wrestler, Bosworth tried ranching in Southern California and Mexico, where he learned to become an expert horseman. Finally, his interest in the arts led him to the stage.
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