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Henry Edwards (18 September 1882 – 2 November 1952) was an English actor and film director. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1952. He also directed 67 films between 1915 and 1937. Edwards married actress Chrissie White in 1924. She appeared in many of his films [1] as did the couple's daughter, Henryetta Edwards. [2] .
Henry Edwards was born on 7 March 1941 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980) and Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010). He died on 18 June 2023 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
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- March 7, 1941
- Henry Edwards
- June 18, 2023
To his many cinema fans in the silent period, Henry Edwards' main claim to his considerable fame was as an actor: the tall, tousled, sensitive man who beat off tribulations to win the hand of Chrissie White in pictorially splendid Hepworth dramas, or proved himself noble and self-sacrificing in stout-hearted adventures like The Flag Lieutenant ...
Henry Edwards. Henry Edwards may refer to: Henry W. Edwards (1779–1847), U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut. Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet (1812–1886), British Conservative MP for Halifax, 1847–1852, and Beverley, 1857–1870.
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Henry Edwards was born to Hannah and Thomas Edwards (c. 1794–1857) at Brook House in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, on 27 August 1827, and was christened on 14 September. From his older brother William, he picked up an interest in examining insects. He collected butterflies as a hobby, and studied them under the tutelage of Edward Doubleday. ...
In 1865, Edwards began a 12-year residence in San Francisco, California. At the 1870 United States Census, Edwards reported himself as a non-voting foreign-born resident, a comedian by trade, living in a home worth $1,000. Edwards lived in San Francisco with a white woman listed in the census as "Mariana", born in England, age 40, and a 16-year-old...
In late 1878, Edwards joined a theatre company in Boston, replacing another actor as "Schelm, Chief of Police" at a revival of the spectacle The Exiles at the Boston Theatre on Washington Street. After a four-week run, he performed in other productions at the theatre through the 1879–1880 season. In June, Edwards answered the 1880 censusto report h...
Two years after Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed his Idylls of the King, a poetic telling of the King Arthur legend, Edwards and George Parsons Lathrop adapted it to the stage as a drama in four acts. The result was Elaine, a story of young love between Elaine of Astolat and Lancelot, fashioned with "flower-like fragility" and "winning touches of t...
After his death, Edwards' collection of 300,000 insect specimens, one of the largest in the United States, was bought by his friends for $15,000 for the financial benefit of his widow, and donated to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) as the cornerstone of their collection. Mrs. Harry Edwards also donated some of his other specimens, inc...
Henry Edwards was born on 18 September 1882 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for A Welsh Singer (1915), Scrooge (1935) and The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920).
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