OP Heggie

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OP Heggie (1918)

Oliver Peters Heggie (born September 17, 1877 in Angaston , South Australia , † February 7, 1936 in Los Angeles ) was an Australian theater and film actor.

Life

OP Heggie immigrated to the United States in 1901 and continued his acting career on Broadway , which he began in Australia and London . In 1907 he appeared in the plays Nance Oldfield and Captain Brassbound's Conversion . In 1915 Heggie played the role of the carpenter Peter Quince in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Wallack's Theater . In 1920 he took on the direction and a supporting role in the drama Footloose at the Greenwich Village Theater . Heggie played his last role on Broadway from October 1933 to March 1934 in The Green Bay Tree .

In 1928, Heggie, at that time already over 50 years old, made his cinema debut in the film Die Komödiantin . In 1929 he shot the film The Letter with Jeanne Eagels as a partner and the crime film The Mysterious Dr. with Warner Oland. Fu Manchu . In 1934 he took on the role of Matthew Cuthbert in the literary film adaptation of Anne of Green Gables . But he was most permanently remembered by cinema fans for his role in the classic film Frankenstein's Bride (1935): He played the role of the blind hermit who befriends the monster ( Boris Karloff ) in what is probably the most famous scene of the film. His last film The Prisoner of Shark Island was not released until after his death.

OP Heggie was married with three children. He died of pneumonia in February 1936 at the age of 58.

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SURNAME Heggie, OP
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heggie, Oliver Peters (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Angaston , South Australia
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1936
Place of death Los Angeles , California, United States