Sam Wanamaker

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Sam Wanamaker

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Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker has taken a place in the history of London as the American actor and director who was instrumental in the building of a replica of the Globe Theatre in London.

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• Nationality - American

• Lifespan: 1919 - 1993

• Sam Wanamaker was born June 14, 1919 in Chicago

• Education: attended Drake University, Iowa

• Trained as an actor at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago

• Military Service:  U.S. Army between 1943-1946

• Career: Actor and Director

• Family: Married Charlotte Holland in 1940. They had three daughters called Abby, Jessica & the actress Zoe Wanamaker

• In 1949 Sam Wanamaker visited the site and the remains of the old Globe Theatre. He was dismayed to find that only a plaque on the wall of a brewery commemorated the famous theatre

• Set up home in England after becoming blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy witch-hunts after filming Mr. Denning Drives North in 1950

• Appointed director of the New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool, in 1957

• He joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1959

• In 1969 Sam Wanamaker started actively campaigning to reconstruct a replica of the original Globe theatre used by William Shakespeare

• In 1970 Sam Wanamaker established the "Globe Playhouse Trust" as an educational charity, in order to raise funds to build a replica of the original Elizabethan Globe theatre.

• He directed works included in the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations in 1974

• In 1991 construction work began on building the foundations of the New Globe theatre in London

• In 1993 construction work began on the Globe theatre structure

• In 1993 the first performance at the new Globe theatre is made by the Bremer Shakespeare Company after the temporary stage is dedicated by Sir John Gielgud

• Sam Wanamaker was awarded a CBE in early 1993

• Sam Wanamaker died at the age of 74 on December 18, 1993 of prostrate cancer in London

• On June 12 1997 Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by HRH Prince Philip, inaugurated the new Globe Theatre

• On May 7th 2003 Zoe Wannamaker received a Southwark Blue Plaque award on behalf of her father which was unveiled outside the new Globe theater on13th June 2003 

• Famous for: Sam Wanamaker starred in and directed numerous films and TV series. His most famous film roles were Judgment in Berlin (1988), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Private Benjamin (1980), Death on the Nile (1978) and Taras Bulba (1962)

• He will forever be remembered in England for being instrumental in building the New Globe Theatre in London. Its reconstruction was a replica of the original Globe Theatre of William Shakespeare

Sam Wanamaker
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