Job Stage, film, television actor, theatre manager
Years active 1915-1955
Top Roles Oliver Larrabee, Sir Frederic Taylor, King Louis XI, Eli, Aged Actor
Top GenresDrama, Romance, Adventure, Western, Action, Musical
Top TopicsBook-Based, Bible, Romance (Comic)
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Reap the Wild Wind

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Walter Hampden Overview:

Actor, Walter Hampden, was born Walter Hampden Dougherty on Jun 30, 1879 in Brooklyn, NY. Hampden died at the age of 75 on Jun 11, 1955 in Los Angeles, CA and was cremated and his ashes given to family or friend.

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Walter Hampden Quotes:

Oliver Larrabee: All columnists should be beaten to a pulp and converted back into paper!

Linus Larrabee: After all, this is the 20th century, Father.
Oliver Larrabee: Twentieth century? Why, I could pick a century out of a hat, blindfolded, and come up with a better one.

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Walter Hampden Facts
In 1949, made his TV debut at the age of 69 - as Macbeth!
He coached Ronald Colman in the scenes from "Othello" that Colman played in A Double Life (1947).
From 1922, when John Barrymore staged his first Hamlet, until 1975, when Sam Waterston assayed the role, Barrymore and Hampden were the only American actors to play Hamlet on Broadway. Hampden played the role three times on the Great White Way: in 1918, 1925 and 1929. Stephen Lang, who played the Dane in 1992, is the only other American in more than three-quarters of a century to star in "Hamlet" on Broadway. In that time, Hamlet was dominated by British performers, particularly Maurice Evans, an English immigrant who became an American citizen, who was the only other man since World War One to play Hamlet three times on the Broadway stage. The other British subjects to play the role on Broadway in that period were Sir John Gielgud (considered by many to be THE Hamlet of the 20th century), Leslie Howard, Sir Donald Wolfit, future Canadian Stratford Festival founder John Neville, Richard Burton, Nicol Williamson (considered by some to be the definitive portrayal of the late 1960s) and
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