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
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. 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 stage actor. The son of Irish actor-manager William Macready the Elder he emerged as a leading West End theatre, West End performer during the Regency era.
Career
Macready wa ...
and others.
In 1854 he was again in the United States, appearing in Shakespearian plays and in dramatizations of
Dickens
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's novels. As
Bill Sikes
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he was especially successful, and his
Sir Giles Overreach, a role he played at Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1869, and
Brutus
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were also greatly admired.
He died in
Canton, Pennsylvania
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Geography
Canton is located in southwestern Bradford County at (41.655805, -76.850706), i ...
.
Family
In 1849, he married
Fanny Vining, an English actress. Their son
Harry Davenport (1866–1949) and daughter
Fanny Davenport
Fanny Lily Gipsey Davenport (April 10, 1850 – September 26, 1898) was an American stage actress.
Life
The eldest child of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Elizabeth (Vining) Gill Davenport, Fanny Lily Gypsey Davenport was born on April 10 ...
(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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19th-century American male actors
American male stage actors
1816 births
1877 deaths