Henry B. Walthall was a respected stage actor who became a favorite of pioneering film director D.W. Griffith. Born in 1878 in Alabama, Walthall embarked on a law career but quit law school in 1898 to enlist in the US Army in order to fight in the Spanish-American War. Returning from the war he decided to take up an acting career instead of the law...See full bio »
(1906) Stage: Appeared (as "Burt Williams") in "The Great Divide", produced on Broadway. Drama. Written by William Vaughn Moody. Produced / directed by Henry Miller (who also appeared). Princess Theatre: 3 Oct 1906-24 Mar 1907 (238 performances). Cast: Margaret Anglin, William J. Butler...
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[about getting the role of Holofernes in
Judith of Bethulia] I hadn't expected to play Holofernes because I wasn't the type physically. I stayed away from the studio, but [director D.W. Griffith] sent for me. I said, "I can't play the part; I'm too much of a shrimp". But he had tried out a lot of actors...
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Trivia:
Walthall enlisted in the First Alabama Regiment with the United States Army at the beginning of the Spanish-American War. Serving eleven months, a bout of malarial fever while in camp at Jacksonville, Florida kept him from seeing action.
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