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Walter Hampden
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Walter Hampden
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1879-06-28,Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Walter Hampden is the artist name of Walter Hampden Dougherty (June 30, 1879 in Brooklyn – June 11, 1955 in Los Angeles) was a U.S. actor and theatre manager. He was the younger brother of the American painter Paul Dougherty (1877-1947). He went to England for apprenticeship for six years. Later, he played Hamlet, Henry V and Cyrano de Bergerac on Broadway. In 1925, he became manager of the Colonial Theatre on Broadway. He became noted for his Shakespearean roles as well as for Cyrano, which he played in several productions between 1923 and 1936. Hampden's last stage role was as Danforth in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Hampden appeared in a few silent films, but did not really begin his film career in earnest until 1939, when he played the good Archbishop of Paris[1] (Frollo's brother) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton as Quasimodo. This was Hampden's first sound film ; he was sixty at the time he made it. Several other roles followed—Jarvis Langdon in the 1944 film The Adventures of Mark Twain among them, but all were supporting character roles, not the lead roles that Hampden played onstage. He had a small, but notable role as the long-winded dinner speaker in the first scene of All About Eve (1950), and played the father of Humphrey Bogart and William Holden in Billy Wilder's 1954 comedy Sabrina. These last two films are arguably the ones that Hampden is most well known to modern audiences for. He also played long-bearded patriarchs in biblical epics like The Silver Chalice (1954) and The Prodigal (1955). (In The Silver Chalice, he was Joseph of Arimathea.) Hampden reprised his legendary portrayal of Hercule Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac in the first episode of the radio program Great Scenes from Great Plays, which Hampden hosted from 1948-1949. In addition to his radio roles (The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall), Hampden also appeared in several dramas during the early days of television. He made his TV debut in 1949, playing Macbeth for the last time at the age of 69. His last role was the non-singing one of King Louis XI of France, considered by some to be one of his best performances, in the otherwise unremarkable 1956 Technicolor remake of Rudolf Friml's 1925 operetta The Vagabond King. It was released posthumously, more than a year after Hampden's death. For 27 years, Walter Hampden was president of the Players' Club. The club's library is named for him. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Hampden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

8.1

All About Eve
1950-11-09

7.5

Sabrina
1954-09-10

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

7.3

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939-12-29

All This, and Heaven Too

7.2

All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05

Reap the Wild Wind

6.4

Reap the Wild Wind
1942-03-26

They Died with Their Boots On

6.6

They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20

The Silver Chalice

4.4

The Silver Chalice
1954-12-20

North West Mounted Police

6.3

North West Mounted Police
1940-10-22

7.6

5 Fingers
1952-02-22

Death Is My Neighbor

7

Death Is My Neighbor
1953-08-25

The Adventures of Mark Twain

6.6

The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944-07-20

Treasure of the Golden Condor

6.2

Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953-02-04

The First Legion

6.8

The First Legion
1951-05-04

The Vagabond King

5.7

The Vagabond King
1956-08-28

The Warfare of the Flesh

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The Warfare of the Flesh
1917-05-22

Strange Lady in Town

4.5

Strange Lady in Town
1955-04-12

4

The Prodigal
1955-05-06

4.2

Sombrero
1953-04-22

The Murder Club

0

The Murder Club
1950-10-31

The Dragon’s Claw

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The Dragon’s Claw
1915-10-13

The Ford Theatre Hour

0

The Ford Theatre Hour
1948-10-17

The Prudential Family Playhouse

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The Prudential Family Playhouse
1950-10-10