Edward Loomis Davenport (1816September 1, 1877) was an American actor.
Life and career
Born in
Boston
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, he made his first appearance on the stage in
Providence, Rhode Island
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in support of
Junius Brutus Booth
Junius Brutus Booth (1 May 1796 – 30 November 1852) was an English stage actor. He was the father of actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. His other children included Edwin Booth, the foremost tragedian of ...
. Afterwards he went to England, where he supported Mrs.
Anna Cora Mowatt
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (, Ogden; after first marriage, Mowatt; after second marriage, Ritchie; pseudonyms, Isabel, Henry C. Browning, and Helen Berkley; March 5, 1819July 21, 1870) was a French-born American author, playwright, public reader, ...
(Ritchie) (1819–1870),
William Charles Macready
William Charles Macready (3 March 179327 April 1873) was an English actor.
Life
He was born in London the son of William Macready the elder, and actress Christina Ann Birch. Educated at Rugby School where he became headboy, and where now the t ...
and others.
In 1854 he was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of
Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...
's novels. As
Bill Sikes
William "Bill" Sikes is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. Sikes is a malicious criminal in Fagin's gang, and a vicious robber and murderer. Throughout much of the novel Sikes i ...
he was especially successful, and his
Sir Giles Overreach, a role he played at Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1869, and
Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus (; ; 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Serv ...
were also greatly admired.
He died in
Canton, Pennsylvania
Canton is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 1,723 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Canton is located in southwestern Bradford County at (41.655805, -76.850706), in ...
.
Family
In 1849 he had married
Fanny Vining, an English actress. Their son
Harry Davenport Harry Davenport may refer to:
* Harry Davenport (actor) (1866–1949), American film and stage actor
* Harry Davenport (footballer) (1900–1984), Australian footballer
* Harry J. Davenport (1902–1977), Democratic Party member of the U.S. House ...
(1866–1949) and daughter
Fanny Davenport
Fanny Lily Gipsey Davenport (April 10, 1850 – September 26, 1898) was an English-American stage actress.
Life
The eldest child of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Elizabeth (Vining) Gill Davenport, Fanny Lily Gypsey Davenport was born on A ...
(1850–1898) were also actors.
[K. D. Reynolds, ‘Vining family (per. 1807–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200]
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References
External links
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19th-century American male actors
American male stage actors
1816 births
1877 deaths