Henry John Wallack (1790 – 30 August 1870) was a British actor, stage manager, and brother of actor

James William Wallack James William Wallack (c. 1794–1864), commonly referred to as J. W. Wallack, was an England, Anglo-United States, American actor and Actor-manager, manager, born in London, and brother of Henry John Wallack. Life Wallack's father was named W ...

. Wallack was born in London. Wallack's parents were

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s, who performed at the London minor playhouses and in the British provinces. He worked in the United States, making his debut at the

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on 9 May 1821. In America he was received as Hamlet, Sir Peter Teazle, Sir Anthony Absolute, and many other parts. He appeared at

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on 26 October 1829 as Julius Caesar to his brother's Mark Antony. Subsequently, he was stage-manager at

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. He played the title role in Sheridan's ''

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'', Lord Lovell in ''A New Way to pay Old Debts'', O'Donnell in ''Henri Quatre'', Buckingham in ''Henry VIII'', and other parts, and was on 28 November 1829 the first Major O'Simper in ''Follies of Fashion'', by the Earl of Glengall.

Family

He married 1. Frances (aka Fanny) Jones (divorced 1833) and 2. Miss Maria Turpin, an actress at the

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. He and Frances, an actress, had a son James and two daughters, Julia Wallack, a vocalist, and Fanny Wallack, an actress. Julia, stage name Julia Harland, married the actor William Hoskins in England on 24 August 1842 and moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she died on 19 August 1872. He and Maria, a vocalist, had children, sons George, William Henry James and Augustus Charles. Henry Wallack died in New York City on 30 August 1870.

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* DNB entry on James William Wallack (also contains some text on Henry John) {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallack, Henry John 1790 births 1870 deaths Male actors from London 19th-century English male actors English male stage actors British expatriate male actors in the United States