William Faversham

William Faversham
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Born	William Faversham (1868-02-12)12 February 1868 London, England
Died	Long Island, New York
Occupation	Producer / Stage actor
Spouse(s)	Julie Opp

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The Silver King (1919)

William Faversham (12 February 1868, London – 7 April 1940, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York) was an English stage and film actor, manager, and producer.

Biography

One of the last of the legendary actor-managers, William Faversham became a major name on Broadway in the original production of The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. Faversham was much admired in such potboilers as Brother Officers (1900), which he revived twice that same year and the next, and he produced, directed, and starred in the original production of The Squaw Man (1906). Productions of both Julius Caesar (1914) and Othello (1917) followed. Faversham's Broadway swan song came in a 1931 repertory presentation of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and The Merchant of Venice.

He became a motion picture star in 1915 courtesy of the burgeoning Metro Pictures. At one point, Faversham's popularity at Metro was second only to that of Francis X. Bushman, the leading matinee idol of the era. Quite elderly by then, Faversham later appeared in bit roles in talkies, including portraying the Duke of Wellington in the Technicolor production of Becky Sharp and, of all things, playing the heroine's father in the low-budget singing cowboy oater The Singing Buckaroo (1937).

He was married to stage actresses Edith Campbell and Julia Opps and was the father of William Faversham and actor Philip Faversham.

He received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1940.

Partial filmography

• The Man Who Lost Himself (1920)
• The Sixth Commandment (1924)
• Secret of the Chateau (1934)
• Becky Sharp (1935)
• The Singing Buckaroo (1937)
• Arizona Days (1937)

External links

• William Faversham at the Internet Movie Database
• William Faversham at the Internet Broadway Database
• Julie Opp(William's beloved wife died 1921); PeriodPaper.com, circa 1910
• Julie Opp, William Faversham and their sons Phillip and William Jr., 1917 National Red Cross Pageant