Wallace Eddinger (July 14, 1881/1883 – January 8, 1929) was an American stage actor. He started as a child actor, known as Wally Eddinger. As a child he played Cedric in ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' which starred female child sensation

Elsie Leslie Elsie Leslie (August 14, 1881 – October 31, 1966) was an American actress. She was America's first child star and the highest paid and most popular child actress of her era. Life and career Leslie's first role in 1884 was Little Meenie in ...

. Eddinger appeared in only two silent films, ''The Great Diamond Robbery'' and '' A Gentleman of Leisure'', in 1914 and 1915 respectively, preferring the stage. The latter film still survives. Eddinger was born to actors Lawrence Eddinger (1855-1928) and May (nee Williams) (1858-1944) and had an older sister Lorle Eddinger (1879-1969). He was married twice, first to Ivy Lee Moore-La Grove from 1912 to 1920, and second to popular stage actress Margaret Lawrence (1889-1929) from 1924 until his death. Lawrence had been previously married to a publisher named Orson Munn, with whom she had two daughters. Six months after Eddinger's death, Margaret Lawrence was murdered in New York City by her lover, actor

Louis Bennison Louis Bennison (October 17, 1884 – June 9, 1929) was an American stage and silent film actor, known for westerns. Biography Bennison was born on October 17, 1884, in Oakland, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. ...

, after a drunken lover's quarrel. Bennison then took his own life in what was deemed a

murder suicide Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the c ...

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Wallace Eddinger
in ''The Third Degree'' 1909 (University of Washington, Sayre Collection) {{DEFAULTSORT:Eddinger, Wallace 1880s births 1929 deaths American male stage actors Actors from Albany, New York American male child actors Male actors from New York (state)