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- 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.
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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 television work ...
Jun 14, 2018 · In July 1993, Sam Wanamaker was made an Honorary Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen, in recognition of the remarkable contribution that he had made to relations between Britain and the United States and, of course, for all he has done on behalf of the Shakespeare Globe project.
Jul 24, 2012 · In 1952, at the height of "the Red Scare", Wanamaker came to England to film Mr Denning Drives North knowing that he might be subpoenaed before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Jun 14, 2019 · It would be some time before Mr S was ready to make his move. Meanwhile there was Sam with a muddy hole lined with a £2 million membrane – the last penny he had been able to raise so far – that would keep out Old Father Thames and keep in whatever the Clerk of the Weather chose to send.
Dec 20, 1993 · One of the first things he did on arriving in London was to seek out the site of Shakespeare's Globe. Instead of the elaborate memorial he'd always imagined, Wanamaker found a...
Jun 14, 2019 · Most closely associated with Shakespeare’s Globe, which was built largely because of the force of his personality, Wanamaker was also a well-known actor, in the UK performing Iago to the Othello of Paul Robeson in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1959. In his native USA he was also a political activist.
Jun 21, 1994 · Wanamaker's ambition to reconstruct the Globe took root after he first came to London 40 years ago. He went to the south bank of the Thames to search for the Globe, only to discover just a grimy...
