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Henry B. Walthall was born March 16, 1878: 1437 on a cotton plantation owned by his father in Shelby County, Alabama. His father Junius Leigh Walthall had been a captain in the Confederate States Army. His sister, Anna Mae Walthall (1894–1950) had a film career in the 1920s.
The Walthall Family. Father: Junius Leigh Walthall, a native of Virginia, former Captain in the Confederate Army, involved in Alabama politics. Mother: Anne Mallory Wallace Walthall. Children: Natalie Walthall, born 18 March 1872 at Mallory Station, Shelby County, Alabama.
Henry B. Walthall was a respected stage actor who became a favorite of pioneering film director D.W. Griffith. Born in 1878 in Alabama, Walthall embarked on a law career but quit law school in 1898 to enlist in the US Army in order to fight in the Spanish-American War.
- March 16, 1878
- June 17, 1936
Mar 16, 2017 · Actor. He was a prolific American stage and silent screen actor of the early 1900s thru 1936. He appeared in D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking 1915 film classic The Birth of a Nation, playing the Confederate Colonel Ben Cameron.
He was one of eight Walthall children. Henry's father, Junius Leigh Walthall, was a Virginia native who served as captain in the Confederate Army and, later, became a highly respected figure in Alabama politics (Williamson, pp. 83-84).
Henry B. Walthall was a respected stage actor who became a favorite of pioneering film director D.W. Griffith. Born in 1878 in Alabama, Walthall was initially interested in pursuing a law career but he quit law school in 1898 to enlist in the US Army in order to fight in the Spanish-American War.
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One summer day in 1909, Henry B. Walthall left the Player's Club in New York to find his friend James Kirkwood at the request of a producer. He was met at the Kirkwood residence by Mrs. Kirkwood who told him her husband was working in films.
