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Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth (August 11, 1867 – December 30, 1943) was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer. Bosworth began his career in theater, eventually transitioning to the emerging film industry.
Hobart Bosworth. Actor: The Big Parade. Hobart Bosworth--pioneering movie director, writer, producer and actor--was born Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth on August 11, 1867, in Marietta, OH.
Hobart Bosworth is known as an Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Scenario Writer, and Set Designer. Some of his work includes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Big Parade, Behind the Door, Captain January, The Sea Lion, Lady for a Day, Joan the Woman, and Below the Surface.
Hobart Bosworth was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1913, he founded his own production company. Bosworth began his acting career with roles in such films as "A Little Brother of the Rich" (1915), the war "Joan the Woman" (1916) with Geraldine Farrar and the war "The Little...
A star on Broadway in the late 19th century (Hedda Gabler, opposite Mrs. Fiske, Martha of the Lowlands, with Emily Wakeman), Bosworth entered the silent drama with the Selig Polyscope Company after losing his voice in 1908.
In 1913, he started his own company, Hobart Bosworth Productions Company, to produce a series of Jack London melodramas. He produced and directed the company...
Hobart Bosworth was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer. Born Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth, he was a direct descendant of Miles Standish and John and Priscilla Alden on his father's side and of New York's Van Zandt family, the first Dutch settlers to land in the New World, on his mother's side.
