Sam Wanamaker

Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
06/14/1919
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois
Death Date:
12/18/1993
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biography
Distinguished looking, left-leaning actor who came to the screen in 1948 after considerable experience as an actor/director on the Chicago and Broadway stage. During the "Red Scare", Wanamaker appeared in "Give Us This Day" (1949), directed in London by Edward Dmytryk, a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten and after appearing in another film in England remained there to avoid any possible repercussions for his political commitments. After appearing in two British productions, however, he found that the tentacles of the Hollywood blacklist reached across the Atlantic, making it impossible Continued
Credits
Felix Graff
1991
David Warfield
1987
Teddy Benjamin
1980
Filipenko
Major Kaufman
Highsmith
Andrew Erskine
Harry Sickles
Bruno Hansen
Frank Sanderman
Mike Carter
Luigi Patrovita
Fritz Curtis
Bernard Hellring
Director
Director
milestones
Year
Milestone
1936 
In Chicago worked as actor-director in summer stock, also with the Shakespearean Theatre Group and the Chicago Civic Repertory Theatre
 
Directed productions for the Jewish Peoples Institute
 
Worked as radio actor in NY
1942 
Broadway acting debut, "Cafe Crown"
 
Served in US Armed Forces
Continued