William Prince (actor)
| William Prince | |
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Prince (right) with Augusta Dabney and John Connell in Young Doctor Malone, 1962.
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| Born |
William LeRoy Prince January 26, 1913 Nichols, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 8, 1996 (aged 83) Tarrytown, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1936-1994 |
| Spouse(s) |
Dorothy Hause (m. 1934; div. 1964) Augusta Dabney (m. 1964; his death 1996) |
| Children | 4 |
William LeRoy Prince (January 26, 1913 – October 8, 1996) was an American actor who appeared in numerous soap operas and made dozens of guest appearances on primetime series as well as playing villains in movies like The Gauntlet and Spontaneous Combustion.
Prince was born in Nichols, New York, the son of Myrtle (née Osborne), a nurse, and Gorman Prince, who worked in sales.
Prince attended Cornell University, which he left in his senior year to join a Federal Theatre tour of The Taming of the Shrew. He served an apprenticeship with the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia, making his New York debut with the company in 1937 in its production of Max Reinhardt's Eternal Road. He then joined Maurice Evans's company, appearing in minor Shakespearean roles.
His star began to rise after actress Eva Le Gallienne, responding to a pleading letter, gave him an audition for the part of 'Richard' in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! He got the part and caught the eye of the critics. His breakthrough came a year later, in 1942, with the role of Private Quizz West in Maxwell Anderson's play The Eve of St. Mark. He was soon signed to a Hollywood contract, and appeared in Destination Tokyo, Objective Burma, and Dead Reckoning, among the first of many films to come in his lifetime.
After a mostly undistinguished movie career in the late 1940s, Prince worked primarily in television the following decade, having moved back to New York in the interim. It was there, in 1947, that Prince became one of the founding members of The Actors Studio. Over the next decade, he made numerous appearances on anthology drama series such as Studio One, Philco Television Playhouse, and Armstrong Circle Theatre, and in 1955, Prince co-starred with Gary Merrill in the second season of Justice, an NBC drama about lawyers of the Legal Aid Society of New York.
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