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Richard Bennett
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Actor Born: May 21, 1873 Death: October 22, 1944 Biography:Broadway luminary "Richard Bennett" made his first acting appearance in an 1891 Chicago production of The Limited Mail. Later that year, he made his New York bow appearing in the same play. With his classically chiseled features and athletic build, "Bennett" rapidly achieved "matinee idol" status, continuing to portray virile leading men into his fifties. He had a flair for foreign dialects, which he demonstrated to maximum effects in such plays as They Knew What They Wanted (1924) and such films as "Arrowsmith" (1931). While he regarded Hollywood as a "madhouse," "Bennett" occasionally functioned as technical advisor in silent-film adaptations of his stage plays, and was sporadically lured before the cameras in the talkie era, most memorably as the dying millionaire in "If I Had a Million" (1932) and the crusty Amberson paterfamilias in "Orson Welles"' "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942). "Richard... Full Biography
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