Frederick Pope Stamper (20 November 1877 – 12 November 1950), usually credited as F. Pope Stamper or F. Pope-Stamper, less often as Pope Stamper, was an English stage and film actor who appeared mostly in

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. Born at

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in 1877, Stamper was a stage actor both before and after appearing in silent movies. He had little screen work after the arrival of the "talkies". In 1902, at

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, he married Daisy Leahy, an Irish chorus girl and actress who used the stage name of Daisy Le Hay. In 1907 he appeared in the musical comedy ''

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'' at the

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, creating the role of the Bandmaster; the musical enjoyed a run of 462 performances. In 1911 he appeared in a

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production of '' The Siren'' at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Broadway, and the same year he played Captain Charteris in ''A Quiet Girl'', at New York's Park Theatre, with a run of 240 performances. Stamper was a good golfer, but while in New York with a leading role in the Broadway production of ''

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'', he played a round of golf with a Miss Melrose at the Dunwoodie Country Club, in

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, injured the lady by slicing a drive, and faced a claim which was reported as a notable case on the law of

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s. Stamper had a brother, Charles William Stamper, who was motor engineer to

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, and a son, Henry Lionel Pope Stamper (1906–1985), who enraged his father by abandoning a job his father had got for him in the City of London to become an unsuccessful repertory actor. His granddaughter Rosemary Stamper is the mother of the comedian

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Selected films

*''The Girl from the Sky'' (1914): Harold Teale (as Pope Stamper) *''Ghosts'' (1914): The Man (as Pope Stamper) *'' The Divine Gift'' (1918): Tristan *''

The Lackey and the Lady ''The Lackey and the Lady'' is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Leslie Howard, A. E. Matthews and Roy Travers. It was based on a novel by Tom Gallon. The film was the subject of a court case after its d ...

'' (1919): Garrett Woodruffe *''

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'' (1920): Walter Clifford *'' The Pride of the Fancy'' (1920): Oswald Gordon''Variety Film Reviews 1921-1925'' (1983), p. 32 *''

A Master of Craft ''A Master of Craft'' is a 1922 British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Fred Groves, Mercy Hatton and Judd Green. It was based on a 1900 novel by W. W. Jacobs. Cast * Fred Groves - Captain Flower * Mercy Hatton - ...

'' (1922): Mate *''The Musical Beauty Shop'' (short film, 1930): John *'' The Stickpin'' (short film, 1933): Simms

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stamper, Frederick Pope 1877 births 1950 deaths English male stage actors English male film actors English male silent film actors Male actors from London People from Hammersmith 19th-century English male actors 20th-century English male actors Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham