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Hobart Bosworth
Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth (August 11, 1867 – December 30, 1943) was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer. Bosworth began his career in theater, eventually transitioning to the emerging film industry. Despite a battle with tuberculosis, he found success in silent films, establishing himself as a lead actor and pioneering the industry in California. Bosworth started his own production company, Hobart Bosworth Productions, in 1913, focusing on Jack London melodramas. After the company closed, Bosworth continued to act in supporting roles, surviving the transition to sound films. He is known as the "Dean of Hollywood" for his role in shaping the California film industry. In 1960, Bosworth was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.
Bosworth was born on August 11, 1867, in Marietta, Ohio. His father was a sea captain during the Civil War.
When Bosworth was 12 years old he ran away to sea. In June 1885, while he was on shore leave in San Francisco, an opportunity arose for him to join McKee Rankin's stage company. This proved to be the beginning of his theatrical career.
As an aspiring landscape painter it was suggested that he work as a stage manager to raise money for his art studies. Acting on a friend's advice Bosworth obtained a job with McKee Rankin as a stage manager at the California Theatre in San Francisco. Here he was eventually also pressed into duty as an actor in a small part with just three lines. Though he botched the lines he was subsequently given other small roles. Bosworth was eighteen years old and on the cusp of a life in the theater.[citation needed]
Hobart signed on with Lewis Morrison to be part of a road company for a season as both an actor and as Morrison's dresser, playing Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Measure for Measure. During his time with the company, Hobart and another writer wrote a version of Faust that Morrison used for twenty years in repertory. By 1887, he was acting at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. He became proficient enough on stage to give Shakespearean canon by the time he was twenty-one years old, though he admitted that he was the worst Macbeth ever.[citation needed]
Bosworth eventually wound up in Park City, Utah, where he worked in a mine, pushing an ore wagon in order to raise money. He escaped the pits to tour with the magician Hermann the Great as the conjurer's assistant for a tour through Mexico.[citation needed]
For the first time in eleven years, the 21-year-old Bosworth met his father. Hobart recalled, "He looked at me and said, "Hum! I couldn't lick you now, son." They never met again.[citation needed]
Bosworth signed with Julia Marlowe, who cast him in leads in Shakespearean plays.
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Hobart Bosworth
Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth (August 11, 1867 – December 30, 1943) was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer. Bosworth began his career in theater, eventually transitioning to the emerging film industry. Despite a battle with tuberculosis, he found success in silent films, establishing himself as a lead actor and pioneering the industry in California. Bosworth started his own production company, Hobart Bosworth Productions, in 1913, focusing on Jack London melodramas. After the company closed, Bosworth continued to act in supporting roles, surviving the transition to sound films. He is known as the "Dean of Hollywood" for his role in shaping the California film industry. In 1960, Bosworth was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.
Bosworth was born on August 11, 1867, in Marietta, Ohio. His father was a sea captain during the Civil War.
When Bosworth was 12 years old he ran away to sea. In June 1885, while he was on shore leave in San Francisco, an opportunity arose for him to join McKee Rankin's stage company. This proved to be the beginning of his theatrical career.
As an aspiring landscape painter it was suggested that he work as a stage manager to raise money for his art studies. Acting on a friend's advice Bosworth obtained a job with McKee Rankin as a stage manager at the California Theatre in San Francisco. Here he was eventually also pressed into duty as an actor in a small part with just three lines. Though he botched the lines he was subsequently given other small roles. Bosworth was eighteen years old and on the cusp of a life in the theater.[citation needed]
Hobart signed on with Lewis Morrison to be part of a road company for a season as both an actor and as Morrison's dresser, playing Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Measure for Measure. During his time with the company, Hobart and another writer wrote a version of Faust that Morrison used for twenty years in repertory. By 1887, he was acting at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. He became proficient enough on stage to give Shakespearean canon by the time he was twenty-one years old, though he admitted that he was the worst Macbeth ever.[citation needed]
Bosworth eventually wound up in Park City, Utah, where he worked in a mine, pushing an ore wagon in order to raise money. He escaped the pits to tour with the magician Hermann the Great as the conjurer's assistant for a tour through Mexico.[citation needed]
For the first time in eleven years, the 21-year-old Bosworth met his father. Hobart recalled, "He looked at me and said, "Hum! I couldn't lick you now, son." They never met again.[citation needed]
Bosworth signed with Julia Marlowe, who cast him in leads in Shakespearean plays.
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