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Marc Wanamaker (nephew) 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. He became extensively involved in English theater, while continuing film and ...
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. He studied at Drake University, IA, then trained at Goodman Theatre, Chicago, worked with summer stock companies in Chicago as an actor and ...
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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- London, England, UK
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. He studied at Drake University, IA, then trained at Goodman Theatre, Chicago, worked with summer stock companies in Chicago as an actor and director, and made his London debut in 1952. In 1957 ...
- June 14, 1919
- December 18, 1993
Sam Wanamaker was an American actor and director who played an instrumental role in reconstructing the New Globe Theatre in London. A native of Chicago, he was trained at Goodman Theater before starting his acting career by performing in traveling shows. He made his Broadway debut in 1942 with the play ‘Cafe Crown’.
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 London.
In Bankside …Shakespeare, and the American actor Sam Wanamaker, the driving force behind building the new Globe Theatre (1997) in Bankside. The original Globe Theatre (1599)—a partial foundation of which was discovered in 1989—and other theatres and bear gardens (venues for bearbaiting) also stood in Bankside, located strategically just outside the city’s…
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Jun 14, 2019 · The Queen opened Shakespeare’s Globe in 1996. Sam’s daughter Zoë spoke the prologue from Henry V. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend. The brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! And fittingly, there was a monarch to behold the scene.
