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Richard Bennett Died at age: 74

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Richard Bennett

Date of Birth:

May 21, 1870

Country of birth:

Died:

Oct 22, 1944

Biography of

Richard Bennett

    From Wikipedia

    Richard Bennett (May 21, 1870 – October 22, 1944) was an

    American actor who became a stage and silent screen matinee idol over the early

    decades of the twentieth century.

    He was born in Deacon's Mills, Indiana in 1870 (some sources

    state 1872), the son of George Washington Bennett and Eliza Huffman. His

    younger sister was Ina Blanche Bennett. For a time, he was a sailor on Great

    Lakes steamer, a professional boxer, medicine showman, troubadour and night

    clerk in a hotel in Chicago.

    His silent movie debut was a reprisal of his stage role in

    Damaged Goods (1914), which co-starred his wife, Adrienne Morrison. He helped

    adapt the screenplay and direct the drama. In the drama The Valley of Decision

    (1916), which he wrote, Bennett appeared on the screen with his wife, Morrison,

    and his three daughters.

    In 1922, Bennett starred in Broadway's English-language

    version of Leonid Andreyev's melodrama He Who Gets Slapped, playing the title

    role as He. The success of the play led to its being filmed by

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with the production starring Lon Chaney in Bennett's role.

    With the advent of the talkies the middleaged actor found a niche as a

    character actor. In 1931 he appeared with Constance Bennett in Bought!

    On November 8, 1903, Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison

    were married in Jersey City. They had three daughters, Constance Bennett

    (1904–1965); Barbara Bennett (1906–1958); and Joan Bennett (1910–1990). He and

    Morrison were divorced in April 1925. Their first and third daughters,

    Constance and Joan, became successful movie stars. Their second daughter,

    Barbara, was also briefly an actress, but with less success. The two appeared

    together on stage in the 1923 play The Dancers Barbara married the popular

    singer Morton Downey. The controversial television talk-show host Morton

    Downey, Jr., was Richard Bennett's grandson.

    In 1925, he became acquainted with Aimee Raisch in San

    Francisco, during the production of Creoles, in which she played a minor role.

    She was a young socialite and aspiring actress who was divorcing her

    millionaire clubman and polo player husband, Harry G. Hastings.

    Bennett and Raisch were married July 11, 1927, in Chicago.

    He and Aimee, who later went by Angela, separated April 3, 1934, and were

    divorced in 1937. His daughter Joan made her stage debut acting with him in

    Jarnegan (1928). This play, in which he played Jack Jarnegan, provided one of

    his favourite roles—that of a belligerent, drunken movie director given to

    acidulous and profane comments on Hollywood.

    Richard Bennett died at age 74 from a heart attack at Good

    Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Episcopal funeral services were conducted on

    October 24, 1944, in Beverly Hills. He is interred in Pleasant View Cemetery,

    Lyme, Connecticut, beside his second wife and mother of his daughters.

    Bennett was fond of saying that the movie industry was not a

    business, but a madhouse.

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Richard Bennett

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Filmography of

Richard Bennett

Found 19 Movies in total

The Pirates of Blood River

Seymour (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1962

Journey into Fear

Ship's Captain ( Actor )

... 1943

The Magnificent Ambersons

Major Amberson ( Actor )

... 1942

18 Minutes

Korn ( Actor )

... 1935

Nana

Gaston Greiner ( Actor )

... 1934

Big Executive

Commodore Richardson ( Actor )

... 1933

If I Had a Million

John Glidden ( Actor )

... 1932

Strange Justice

Kearney ( Actor )

... 1932

Madame Racketeer

Elmer Hicks ( Actor )

... 1932

This Reckless Age

Donald Ingals ( Actor )

... 1932

Arrowsmith

Gustav Sondelius ( Actor )

... 1931

Bought!

David Meyer ( Actor )

... 1931

Five and Ten

John Rarick ( Actor )

... 1931

The Home Towners

Vic Arnold ( Actor )

... 1928

Youth for Sale

Montgomery Breck ( Actor )

... 1924

The Eternal City

Bruno ( Actor )

... 1923

The End of the Road

Doctor ( Actor )

... 1919

The Valley of Decision

Arnold Gray ( Actor )

Writer

... 1916

... 1914