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Samuel Wanamaker, CBE, (born Wattenmacker; June 14, 1919 – December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director who moved to the United Kingdom after becoming fearful of being blacklisted in Hollywood due to his communist views in the 1950s.
Sam Wanamaker. Actor: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Actor and director Sam Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Molly (Babell) and Maurice Wattenmaker, a tailor.
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June 14, 1919 · Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died. December 18, 1993 · London, England, UK (cancer) Birth name. Samuel Wattenmacker. Height. 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Bio. Actor and director Sam Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Molly (Babell) and Maurice Wattenmaker, a tailor.
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- December 18, 1993
Mar 9, 2021 · March 9, 2021. — Noël de Souza. Samuel Wattenmacker, more commonly known as Sam Wanamaker, was born in Chicago in 1919. He was known as London’s favorite American actor and director. Wanamaker trained at the prestigious Goodman Theatre in Chicago and began his career as an actor with traveling shows and Broadway at the age of 17.
Dec 19, 1993 · LONDON -- Sam Wanamaker, 74, the American-born film actor and director whose long-held dream of rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe Theater is nearing reality, died of cancer Dec. 18 at his home in...
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Samuel Wanamaker, CBE, (born Wattenmacker; June 14, 1919 – December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director who moved to the United Kingdom after becoming fearful of being blacklisted in Hollywood due to his communist views.
In 1970 the American actor Sam Wanamaker, who was driven by the notion of reconstructing a replica of the Globe, established the Shakespeare Globe Playhouse Trust. Seventeen years later a groundbreaking ceremony was held on a Bankside site near that of the original Globe, and in 1989 the foundations of….
