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- Birth nameJohn Landers Stevens
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Landers Stevens was born on February 17, 1877 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Bill Cracks Down (1937), Wild Honey (1922) and Frozen Justice (1929). He was married to Georgie Cooper and Fannie Gillette. He died on December 19, 1940 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesGeorgie Cooper(April 29, 1903 - December 19, 1940) (his death, 2 children)Fannie Gillette(April 15, 1896 - April 28, 1903) (divorced)
- RelativesMichael Stevens(Grandchild)George Stevens Jr.(Grandchild)
- Father of director George Stevens and cameraman Jack Stevens.
- His brother was Ashton Stevens (1872-1951) the prominent Chicago drama critic. Ashton gave banjo lessons to William Randolph Hearst, leading to his position on the Hearst Chicago paper. Ashton was a mentor of Orson Welles, and the Joseph Cotten character in Citizen Kane (1941), "Jedediah Leland", was modeled on Ashton.
- Grandfather of George Stevens Jr.
- Great-grandfather of Michael Stevens
- He and his wife were theater actors in San Francisco and on the Orpheum Circuit in the early 1900s. Landers was the actor/manager of Ye Liberty Playhouse in Oakland, California, where he played Shakespeare and Dickens (Sidney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities" as well as popular plays of the day.) Around 1918 they moved to Glendale, California to take up careers in motion pictures.
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