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- Henry Byron Warner was the definitive cinematic Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927). He was born into a prominent theatrical family on October 26, 1875 in London. His father was Charles Warner, and his grandfather was James Warner, both prominent English actors. He replaced J.B. Warner as Jesus in The King of Kings (1927) when J.B. died of tuberculosis at age 29. (J.B. was not Henry's brother. J.B. had taken the professional last name "Warner" because Henry's family took him in.)
Henry Warner's family wanted him to become a doctor, and he graduated from London University but eventually gave up his medical studies. The theater was in his blood, and he studied acting in Paris and Italy before joining his father's stock company, making his debut in the English production of "Drink." It was from his father that he honed his craft.
Warner made it to the United States in the early 1900s, after touring the British Empire. Billed as Harry Warner, he made his Broadway debut in the US colonial drama "Audrey" at Hoyt's Theatre on November 24, 1902, starring James O'Neill, the father of playwright Eugene O'Neill. He was billed as H.B. Warner in his next appearance on Broadway, in the 1906 comedy "Nurse Marjorie." He appeared in 13 more Broadway productions in his career, from the twin-bill of "Susan in Search of a Husband" & "A Tenement Tragedy" (also 1906) to "Silence" in 1925.
He moved into motion pictures, making his debut in the Mutual short Harp of Tara (1914). Also in 1914, he appeared in a film written by Cecil B. DeMille for Famous Players Lasky, The Ghost Breaker (1914), in which he had played on Broadway the year before. Warner became a leading man and a star in silent pictures, reaching the zenith of his career playing Jesus in DeMille's The King of Kings (1927). His excellent performance was actually enhanced by the silent screen, allowing the audience to imagine how Jesus would sound. Warner could be extremely moving in silent pictures, notably in the melodrama Sorrell and Son (1927) as a war veteran father who sacrifices all for his son.
When talkies arrived, he became a busy supporting player. A favorite of Frank Capra, appeared in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Cast again by Capra, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Lost Horizon (1937). He also appeared in You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Other major talkies included The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) and Topper Returns (1941). Other than Jesus, the role he is best remembered role for today is in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), in which he played Mr. Gower, the druggist who is saved from committing a lethal medication error by the young George Bailey (the James Stewart character as a child). H.B. Warner appeared in Sunset Boulevard (1950) as himself. His last credited role was as Amminadab in DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), a remake of the earlier silent The Ten Commandments (1923). He last role was an uncredited bit part in Darby's Rangers (1958).
Henry Warner died on December 21, 1958 in Woodland Hills, California. He was 82 years old. - Actor
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José Ortiz de Zárate was born in 1889 in Bilbao, Spain. He was an actor, known for Las tandas del principal (1949), Hermoso ideal (1948) and La niña de mis ojos (1947). He was married to Loló Trillo. He died on 21 December 1958 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.- Feuchtwanger graduated from high school in 1903. From 1903 he studied German, history and philosophy in Munich and Berlin. He moved in the Munich artistic scene and began his first literary attempts with theater reviews, stories and dramas. In 1907 he received his doctorate. phil. with a work on Heinrich Heine's "Rabbi von Bacherach". Because of the restrictions for Jews at German colleges and universities at the time, he dropped his habilitation plans. From 1907 he initially worked as a theater critic and dramaturge in Munich. In 1912 he married Marta Loeffler. In 1914 he went on a trip to Tunisia with his wife, during which he narrowly escaped internment by the French.
Lion Feuchtwanger became one of the first writers to express criticism of the exuberant patriotism of the Germans and against the war in plays during the First World War. His short military service ended with his discharge due to short-sightedness. In 1918 he experienced the revolution in Munich and worked on the dramatic novel "Thomas Wendt". In 1920 he met Bertold Brecht and Marieluise Fleißer there. A friendly relationship developed with Brecht, which led to them working together. Feuchtwanger realized several theater projects with him, incorporating influences from this collaboration into his epic theater. In 1924 the two of them worked on the play "Life of Edward the Second of England".
In 1913, Feuchtwanger's historical novel "The Ugly Duchess Margarete Maultasch" about ugliness and outsiderness was published. In 1925 he moved to Berlin and in 1927 his play "The Petroleum Island" was premiered. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Feuchtwanger was expatriated. His house in Berlin was searched, looted and confiscated, and manuscripts were also lost. At that time he was on a lecture tour in the USA. He went to Sanary-sur-Mer in the south of France and to Moscow in 1937, where he co-edited the exile magazine "Das Wort", which was published in Germany, from 1936 to 1939. From 1939 to 1940 he was housed in an internment camp in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Through the intervention of Eleanor Roosevelt, he was released and fled to the USA via Portugal. From 1941 he lived near Los Angeles. Due to his rapprochement with the communists and the persecution of socialists and communists under Joseph McCarthy, he was unable to become a citizen. Lion Feuchtwanger's literary focus is now on the historical novel. He did not see it as a representation or retracing of history, but wanted to use it to communicate generally valid truths, which he based on historical material and figures as well as on the conflicts highlighted. The first major success came in 1818 with the drama "Jud Süß". He then expanded it into a novel, published in 1925. But before that he had difficulty finding a publisher.
Feuchtwanger's first contemporary historical novel, "Success. Three Years of History of a Province" (1930), not only tells the story of the rise of the Nazis in Bavaria, but also explains the socio-psychological prerequisites and the functioning of the interaction between politics, the judiciary, large industry and the crime of German citizens . "Success" became a highlight in Feuchtwanger's literary work. He later combined the contemporary historical novels "Success", "The Oppenheim Siblings" (1933) and "Exile" (1940) into the trilogy "The Waiting Room". The Josephus trilogy consisting of the works "The Jewish War" (1932), "The Sons" (1935), and "The Day Will Come" (1945) occupies a central position in Lion Feuchtwanger's oeuvre.
This is also about the fate of the Jewish people based on the writer Flavius Josephus in a non-Jewish environment. Feuchtwanger also reflects on his own literary work. In 1936 the satire on Hitler "The False Nero" was published. The novel "Exile", published in 1940, makes Feuchtwanger's approach to socialism clear. In the report "Unholdes France" (1942) he describes his experiences in the internment camp. In 1945 the collaboration with Bert Brecht was resumed with the play "The Story of Simone Machard". In 1948 he created the play "Wahn or The Devil in Boston" about the witch hunt in Massachusetts - the reason for this work was his experiences of the persecution of communists in the USA.
With the two works "The Jewess of Toledo" and "Jefta and his Daughter" Feuchtwanger turned back to the fate of the Jewish people. His other works include "Peace, a Burlesque Game" (1918), "The Prisoners of War" (1919), "Three Anglo-Saxon Pieces" (1927) - Harry Willis died on 21 December 1958 in New York, New York, USA.
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William Chapman was born on 19 August 1896 in Yakima, Washington, USA. He was an actor. He died on 21 December 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.