Job Actor, screenwriter, director, producer
Years active 1907-1941
Top Roles 'Draw' Egan aka William Blake, Steve Denton, Robert Sands, Bill Evers, Silent' Budd Marr
Top GenresSilent Films, Western, Comedy, Romance, Action, Drama
Top Collaborators , , (Producer),
Shares birthday with Agnes Moorehead, Herman Shumlin, Mamo Clark  see more..

William S. Hart Overview:

Legendary actor, William S. Hart, was born William Surrey Hart on Dec 6, 1864 in Newburgh, NY. Hart died at the age of 81 on Jun 23, 1946 in Newhall, CA and was laid to rest in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.

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Grim-faced portrayer of upright western heroes who stood up for justice (and oppressed heroines) no matter what the odds, and of good/bad men who saw the light. The tall, sandy-haired performer came to the screen in middle-age but, like John Wayne years later, remained a star of top-class westerns into his sixties. Died after a stroke. The "S" stood for Surrey.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. William S. Hart's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #5 on Nov 28, 1927. In addition, Hart was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and was immortalized on a US postal stamp in 2010. Hart was never nominated for an Academy Award.

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William S. Hart Quotes:

Blaze Tracy: I reckon God ain't wantin' me much, ma'am, but when I look at you, I feel I've been ridin' the wrong trail.


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Hart High School located in Newhall, California is named after him. The entire school district is also named the William S. Hart school district. [William S.]

Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1975.

An interesting footnote, the famous prohibition lawman (also once a bodyguard for the President Of The United States) "Two Gun Hart" changed his name to that of this famous actor and in some ways patterned his life after him. The real-life lawman Two Gun Hart seldom revealed his birth name, which was James Vincenzo Capone. He was the older brother of infamous gangster Al Capone (see "Capone: The Man And The Era" by Laurence Bergreen).

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