Richard Bennett (actor)

Richard Bennett
Vida
Nacimientu	Deacon (en) , 21 de mayu de 1870
Nacionalidá	Estaos Xuníos
Muerte	Los Angeles, 22 d'ochobre de 1944 (74 años)
Sepultura	Pleasant View Cemetery (en)
Causa de la muerte	infartu de miocardiu
Familia
Casáu con	Grena Heller (en) (1901 – ); Adrienne Morrison (1903 – 1925); Aimee Raisch (en) (1927 – )
Fíos/es	Constance Bennett; Joan Bennett; Barbara Bennett
Estudios
Llingües falaes	inglés
Oficiu	guionista, actor de teatru, actor de cine, direutor de cine
IMDb	nm0071992

Richard Bennett (21 de mayu de 1870, Deacon ^(en) – 22 d'ochobre de 1944, Los Angeles) foi un guionista, actor de teatru, actor de cine y direutor de cine d'Estaos Xuníos. Ye conocíu pola so carrera teatral y pola so trayeutoria como estrella del cine mudu.

Entamos

Nacíu en Deacon's Mills, Indiana, los sos padres yeren George Washington Bennett y Eliza Huffman.^[3] La so hermana menor yera Ina Blanche Bennett.^[4] Mientres un tiempu, Bennett foi boxeador profesional, medicine showman, trovador y conserxe nocherniegu d'un hotel en Chicago.

Carrera

Bennett como'l Padre Anselem en *A Royal Family*.

Bennett debutó como actor teatral na obra The Limited Mail (1891), representada en Chicago. Dempués foi a Nueva York, actuando per vegada primera nel circuitu de Broadway con His Excellency the Governor (1899), función producida por Charles Frohman. Na so tercer obra en Broadway, A Royal Family (1900), tamién producida por Frohman, foi'l Padre Anselem. En 1905 consiguió la fama pol so primer papel masculín, el de Hector Malone, Jr., na obra de George Bernard Shaw Home y super home. A esi papel siguiólu'l de Jefferson Ryder nel ésitu teatral The Lion and the Mouse (1905).

A partir d'esi momentu Bennett interpretó dellos papeles espectaculares. Asina, en 1908 foi John Shand, actuando xunto a Maude Adams, na pieza de James Matthew Barrie What Every Woman Knows, anque nel intre de les funciones surdieron disputes ente dambos intérpretes. En 1913 fixo'l papel de Georges Dupont nel drama Damaged Goods, obra de la cual foi coproductor.

Bennett fíxose célebre poles sos arengues frente al telón, que los sos amigos—y críticos—dicíen que yeren tan bones como les sos actuaciones. Esti vezu, col tiempu, valió-y mayores ovaciones que munches de les obres nes que participaba.

En 1922 Bennett protagonizó en Broadway el melodrama de Leonid Andréyev El que recibe les bofetadas. L'ésitu de la obra motivó una versión cinematográfica rodada por Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, con Lon Chaney nel papel de Bennett.

El debú de Bennett nel cine mudu foi con Damaged Goods (1914), una versión de la obra teatral na cual él trabayara, y na qu'actuaba la so esposa, Adrienne Morrison. Bennett collaboró nel guión y na direición d'esi filme. Nel drama The Valley of Decision (1916), que escribió, Bennett actuaba cola so esposa y colos sos trés fíes.

Cola llegada del cine sonoru, Bennett, entós yá un home d'edá media, atopó campu interpretativo como actor de calter, y en 1931 trabayó cola so fía Constance Bennett en Bought. Sicasí, Bennett ye probablemente más conocíu por encarnar al Mayor Amberson nel filme d'Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Tamién foi John Glidden en If I Had a Million (1932). Bennett amás destacó pola adautación de trabayos d'Eugène Brieux como Les Avariés y Maternité.

Vida personal

Bennett casóse en 1901 en San Francisco (California) con Grena Heller. La pareya divorcióse en 1903. Col so nome de casada, ella protagonizó unes poques obres en Broadway, siguiendo una esitosa carrera de crítica musical pal periódicu de William Randolph Hearst New York American, que más palantre foi'l New York Journal American.

El 8 de payares de 1903 Bennett casóse cola actriz Adrienne Morrison en Jersey City (Nueva Jersey). Tuvieron tres fíos, Constance Bennett (1904–1965), Barbara Bennett (1906–1958) y Joan Bennett (1910–1990). Joan fixo'l so debú como actriz teatral trabayando con él en Jarnegan (1928).

Bennett y Morrison divorciar n'abril de 1925. De les sos fíes, Constance y Joan fueron actrices cinematográfiques d'ésitu, y Barbara foi tamién actriz mientres un tiempu curtiu, pero con menor ésitu. Barbara casóse col popular cantante Morton Downey.

En 1925 conoció a Aimee Raisch en San Francisco mientres la producción de Creoles, obra na cual ella faía un papel menor.^[5] Ella yera una moza de l'alta sociedá y aspirante a actriz que taba divorciándose del so millonariu home, Harry G. Hastings. Bennett y Raisch casáronse'l 11 de xunetu de 1927 en Chicago.^[6] Dixebráronse'l 3 d'abril de 1934 y divorciáronse en 1937.^[7]

Richard Bennett finó en 1944, a los 74 años d'edá, por causa de un infartu agudu de miocardiu nel Hospital Good Samaritan de Los Angeles, California.^[8] Foi soterráu nel Campusantu Pleasant View de Lyme (Connecticut), al llau de la so segunda esposa.^[9]^[10]

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Referencies

↑ ^1,0 ^1,1 Afirmao en: Find a Grave. Identificador Find a Grave: 20135. Apaez como: Richard Bennett. Data de consulta: 9 ochobre 2017. Llingua de la obra o nome: inglés.
↑ ^2,0 ^2,1 ^2,2 Identificador de persona en The Peerage: p29806.htm#i298052. Data de consulta: 7 agostu 2020.
↑ 1870 Cass Co., IN, U.S. Federal Census, Deer Creek Township, Post Office, Logansport, Ind., July 12, Sheet 91, Page 82, Beginning on line 36, Geo. W. Bennett, 23, Male, White, Works on Sawmill, Val. of Personal Ta: $500, NJ, Male Cit. over 21. Eliza L. Bennett, 18, Female, White, Keeps House, OH. Charles Bennett, 1/12, Male, White, IN, (If born in year, state month) May. William H. Bennett, 28, Male, White, Works on Sawmill, NJ, Male Cit. over 21. Jasper Neff, 17, Male, White, Works on Sawmill, IN.
↑ 1880 Howard Co., IN, U.S. Federal Census, Ward 3, City of Kokomo, Taylor St., June 5, Enumeration Dist. 53, Sheet 15, Page 423 C, Beginning on line 24, George W. Bennett, White, Male, 32, Marr., Constable, NJ, NJ, NJ. Eliza L. Bennett, White, Female, 28, Wife, Marr., Keeping House, OH, PA, OH. Clarence C. Bennett, White, Male, 10, Son, Single, Attended School In Year, IN, NJ, OH. Ina B. Bennett, White, Female, 6, Daughter, Single, Attended School In Year, IN, NJ, OH.
↑ New York Times, July 8, 1927, from Chicago, July 7, "Richard Bennett To Wed --- Actor in 'The Barker' Engaged Mrs. Aimee Raisch Hastings," p. 17.
↑ New York Times, July 12, 1927, from Chicago, July 11, "Richard Bennett Weds Mrs. Aimee Hastings --- Star of 'The Barker' Marries San Francisco Woman, Former Wife of Polu Player," p. 29.
↑ Los Angeles Times, Oct. 9, 1937, "Wins Freedom From Thespian --- Wife Divorces Actor Bennett --- Father of Screen Sisters Declared Always on Rampage," p. A 3.
↑ California Death Index, Name: Richard Bennett, Birth Date: 05-21-1870, Mother's Maiden Name: Hoffman, Father's Last: Bennett, Sex: Male, Birth Place: Indiana, Death Place: Los Angeles (19), Death Date: 10-22-1944, SSN: 571-18-2360, Age: 74 yrs.
↑ New York Times, Oct 23, 1944, from Los Angeles, Oct. 22 (AP), "Richard Bennett, Noted Actor, Dies --- Former Matinee Idol, 72, Who Made Stage Debú at 17, Was Father of Three Actress," p. 19.
↑ Los Angeles Times, Oct 23, 1944, "Death Takes Bennett, Once Matinee Idol --- Father of Constance, Barbara and Joan Heart Attack Victim," p. 1.

Enllaces esternos

Richard Bennett na Internet Broadway Database (n'inglés)
Richard Bennett na Internet Movie Database (n'inglés)
Richard Bennett n'AllMovie (n'inglés)
«Richard Bennett». en Find a Grave. (n'inglés)

[d5c8347cb7038701d911a44ba6468269d0e31051-1] 1,0 ^1,1 Afirmao en: Find a Grave. Identificador Find a Grave: 20135. Apaez como: Richard Bennett. Data de consulta: 9 ochobre 2017. Llingua de la obra o nome: inglés.

[51601a4e43c4033de77615a69d9294689b688ec8-2] 2,0 ^2,1 ^2,2 Identificador de persona en The Peerage: p29806.htm#i298052. Data de consulta: 7 agostu 2020.

[3] 1870 Cass Co., IN, U.S. Federal Census, Deer Creek Township, Post Office, Logansport, Ind., July 12, Sheet 91, Page 82, Beginning on line 36, Geo. W. Bennett, 23, Male, White, Works on Sawmill, Val. of Personal Ta: $500, NJ, Male Cit. over 21. Eliza L. Bennett, 18, Female, White, Keeps House, OH. Charles Bennett, 1/12, Male, White, IN, (If born in year, state month) May. William H. Bennett, 28, Male, White, Works on Sawmill, NJ, Male Cit. over 21. Jasper Neff, 17, Male, White, Works on Sawmill, IN.

[4] 1880 Howard Co., IN, U.S. Federal Census, Ward 3, City of Kokomo, Taylor St., June 5, Enumeration Dist. 53, Sheet 15, Page 423 C, Beginning on line 24, George W. Bennett, White, Male, 32, Marr., Constable, NJ, NJ, NJ. Eliza L. Bennett, White, Female, 28, Wife, Marr., Keeping House, OH, PA, OH. Clarence C. Bennett, White, Male, 10, Son, Single, Attended School In Year, IN, NJ, OH. Ina B. Bennett, White, Female, 6, Daughter, Single, Attended School In Year, IN, NJ, OH.

[5] New York Times, July 8, 1927, from Chicago, July 7, "Richard Bennett To Wed --- Actor in 'The Barker' Engaged Mrs. Aimee Raisch Hastings," p. 17.

[6] New York Times, July 12, 1927, from Chicago, July 11, "Richard Bennett Weds Mrs. Aimee Hastings --- Star of 'The Barker' Marries San Francisco Woman, Former Wife of Polu Player," p. 29.

[7] Los Angeles Times, Oct. 9, 1937, "Wins Freedom From Thespian --- Wife Divorces Actor Bennett --- Father of Screen Sisters Declared Always on Rampage," p. A 3.

[8] California Death Index, Name: Richard Bennett, Birth Date: 05-21-1870, Mother's Maiden Name: Hoffman, Father's Last: Bennett, Sex: Male, Birth Place: Indiana, Death Place: Los Angeles (19), Death Date: 10-22-1944, SSN: 571-18-2360, Age: 74 yrs.

[9] New York Times, Oct 23, 1944, from Los Angeles, Oct. 22 (AP), "Richard Bennett, Noted Actor, Dies --- Former Matinee Idol, 72, Who Made Stage Debú at 17, Was Father of Three Actress," p. 19.

[10] Los Angeles Times, Oct 23, 1944, "Death Takes Bennett, Once Matinee Idol --- Father of Constance, Barbara and Joan Heart Attack Victim," p. 1.

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