Frederick Warde(1851-1935)
- Actor
Frederick Warde was born in England in 1851, and became a popular
Shakespearean actor in the 1870s in New York. By the 1910s his general
popularity was in decline, though he was still considered a leading
authority on Shakespearean acting. He appeared in
The Life and Death of King Richard III (1912) at age 61 and
often performed live in the theater where the film was being shown.
Warde would lecture on the topic of
William Shakespeare and
deliver monologues and recitations between reels of the film.
