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- Eben C. Henson
- Eben Henson was born on January 27, 1923 in Danville, Kentucky USA. He is known for Raintree County (1957), Pharaoh's Army (1995) and Hitting the Cycle (2012). He was married to Charlotte Henson. He died on April 25, 2004 in Danville, Kentucky, USA.
- SpouseCharlotte Henson(1955 - April 25, 2004) (his death, 4 children)
- Son of Eben Burdett Henson and Celia Bloch of Danville, KY. His parents operated a 30-room hotel there.
- He returned home when his father had a serious heart attack in Danville, KY. He returned to help his mother run the family hotel there.
- Attended Indiana University where he studied creative writing and stage work in 1941 until he served in World War II. He graduated Indiana University in 1947. He had taken drama classes at the University of the Redlands in California; the Hollings School of Theatre in San Francisco, and Seattle Repertory in Seattle,. He went to New York City. He was accepted into Erwin Friedrich Max Piscator's famed Drama Workshop with Tony Curtis, Bea Arthur, Harry Belafonte, Harry Guardino and twenty others.
- Graduated as an Ensign in Navy Training School and was one of the first assigned officers to set foot in occupied Japan at the end of World War II.
- Received a bronze star with his name and signature on Main Street in Lexington, KY, for his contributions to theatre.
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