Sam Wanamaker
Samuel "Sam" Wanamaker (originally Samuel Wattenmacker , born June 14, 1919 in Chicago , Illinois , † December 18, 1993 in London ) was an American actor and director .
biography
Sam Wanamaker was born to Ukrainian Jews from Nikolaev in Chicago and initially worked successfully on Broadway . During the McCarthy era , he was persecuted for his political views. He then stayed in England, where he staged several controversial plays with a positive response . From 1960 he made theater again in America, in 1973 he opened the Sydney Opera House with a stage version of Tolstoy's War and Peace .
Wanamaker achieved world fame as the initiator of the reconstruction of the Globe Theater in London, for which he established the Shakespeare Globe Foundation in 1971 . He did not live to see the completion of his life's work, the completion of the Globe. He died of cancer in 1993, four years before it reopened in 1997. Opened on January 9, 2014, the roofed-on theater attached to the Globe bears the name Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in memory of him .
Wanamaker is the father of actress Zoë Wanamaker . In the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) by Quentin Tarantino he is played in a supporting role by Nicholas Hammond .
Filmography (selection)
As an actor
- 1948: My Girl Tisa
- 1949: House of Sehnsucht (Give Us This Day)
- 1951: The perpetrator drives north (Mr. Denning Drives North)
- 1960: The trail leads nowhere (The Criminal)
- 1962: Taras Bulba
- 1965: Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines)
- 1965: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
- 1967: The day on which the fish came (The Day the Fish Came Out)
- 1975: The Spiral Staircase
- 1976: Voyage of the Damned (Voyage of the Damned)
- 1976: Chased by All Dogs (The Sell Out)
- 1978: Holocaust - The Story of the Weiss Family ( Holocaust ; TV miniseries)
- 1978: Death on the Nile (Death on the Nile)
- 1979: Only three came through (Contro 4 bandiere)
- 1980: Sagittarius Benjamin (Private Benjamin)
- 1984: Triple Trouble (Irreconcilable Differences)
- 1985: The Aviator (The Aviator)
- 1986: The City Hai (Raw Deal)
- 1987: Baby Boom (Baby Boom)
- 1987: Superman IV - The Quest for Peace
- 1989: Rosamunde Pilcher: Die Muschelsucher ( The Shell Seekers ; TV movie)
- 1991 Pure Luck (Pure Luck)
- 1991: Guilty by Suspicion (Guilty by Suspicion)
- 1994: Code name Caliph ( Wild Justice ; TV movie)
As a director
- 1965: Preston & Preston ( The Defenders ; TV series, episode Eyewitness )
- 1968: The Legend of Custer
- 1968: Lancer (TV series, episode The High Riders )
- 1969: The trail leads to Soho (The File of the Golden Goose)
- 1970: The Road Warrior (The Executioner)
- 1971: Catlow - Life to Die (Catlow)
- 1977: Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger
- 1977/1989: Columbo (TV series, episodes of the Death Symphony and Deadly War Games )
- 1979: Hart but cordially ( Hart to Hart ; TV series, episode Death in the Slow Lane )
- 1979: Mrs. Columbo (TV series, two episodes)
Web links
- Sam Wanamaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shakespeare now also dry. Tages-Anzeiger , January 8, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wanamaker, Sam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wanamaker, Samuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th December 1993 |
| Place of death | London |