Wallace Eddinger

Wallace Eddinger
Eddinger circa 1920
Born	July 14, 1881 Albany, New York
Died	January 8, 1929 (1929-01-09) (aged 47) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Resting place	Amityville Cemetery, Suffolk County New York
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1888-1928

Wallace Eddinger (July 14, 1881 – January 8, 1929) was an American stage actor. He started as a child actor, known as Wally Eddinger. As a child he played Cedric in Little Lord Fauntleroy which starred female child sensation Elsie Leslie.

Eddinger appeared in only two silent films, The Great Diamond Robbery and A Gentleman of Leisure, in 1914 and 1915 respectively, preferring the stage. The latter film still survives.

Eddinger was married twice. The first marriage was to Ivy Lee Moore-La Grove from 1912 to 1920 and the second was to popular stage actress Margaret Lawrence (1889-1929) from 1924 to his death. Lawrence had been previously married to a publisher named Orson Munn with whom she had two daughters. Six months after Eddinger's death, Margaret Lawrence was murdered in New York City by her lover, actor Louis Bennison, after a drunken lover's quarrel. Bennison then took his own life in what was deemed a murder suicide.