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.
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 (née 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 killed himself in what was deemed a
murder-suicide.
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Wallace Eddingerin ''The Third Degree'' 1909 (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)
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1880s births
1929 deaths
American male stage actors
American male child actors
Male actors from Albany, New York