William Faversham
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William Faversham 12 February 1868 London, England |
| Died | 7 April 1940 (aged 72) Long Island, New York |
| Occupation | Producer / Stage actor |
| Spouse(s) | Julie Opp |
William Faversham (12 February 1868 – 7 April 1940) was an English stage and film actor, manager, and producer.
He was born in London. One of the last of the legendary actor-managers, William Faversham became a major name on Broadway in the original production of The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. Faversham was much admired in such potboilers as Brother Officers (1900), which he revived twice that same year and the next, and he produced, directed, and starred in the original production of The Squaw Man (1906). Productions of both Julius Caesar (1914) and Othello (1917) followed. Faversham's Broadway swan song came in a 1931 repertory presentation of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and The Merchant of Venice.
He became a motion picture star in 1915 courtesy of the burgeoning Metro Pictures. At one point, Faversham's popularity at Metro was second only to that of Francis X. Bushman, the leading matinee idol of the era. Quite elderly by then, Faversham later appeared in bit roles in talkies, including portraying the Duke of Wellington in the Technicolor production of Becky Sharp and, of all things, playing the heroine's father in the low-budget singing cowboy oater The Singing Buckaroo (1937).
He was married to stage actresses Edith Campbell and Julie Opp and was the father of William Faversham and actor Philip Faversham.
He received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1940, the year of his death in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York.
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