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Sam Wanamaker (born Samuel Watenmaker) (June 14, 1919, Chicago – December 18, 1993, London) was an American actor and director.

Early years

Wanamaker began his acting career at the age of just 17. After training at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, he began working with summer stock theatre companies in Chicago and worked on Broadway and in travelling shows. He attended Drake University, Iowa prior to serving in the U.S. Army between 1943-1946 during the Second World War. After learning that he had become blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee after filming Mr. Denning Drives North in the U.K. in the early 1950s, Wanamaker declined to return to the U.S..

Outside the U.S.

In 1952, he made his London debut. In 1957, he was appointed director of the New Shakespeare Theatre, in Liverpool. In 1959, he joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon. In the 1960s and 1970s, he produced or directed several works at Covent Garden and elsewhere including the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations in 1974.

He worked both as a director and actor in both films and television, and his appearances included such movies as The Spiral Staircase (1974), Private Benjamin (1980), Superman IV (1986), and Baby Boom (1987).

In 1940 he married Charlotte Holland, who was an American radio soap star of the 1940s and later an actress. She died in 1997, also from cancer at the age of 82. In the 1970s, Sam Wanamaker began an intimate, long-standing relationship with the then-widowed American actress, Jan Sterling.

Wanamaker was instrumental in the rebuilding of the Globe Theatre in London, England, however he did not get to see the theatre's grand opening in 1997, having died of prostate cancer in 1993, aged 74.

He was survived by three daughters, Abby, Jessica & British-based American actress Zoe Wanamaker.

Actor - filmography

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993) (TV) .... Gerald Woodman
Killer Rules (1993) (TV) .... Gambon
"Wild Justice" (1993) (mini) TV Series .... Kingston Parker
City of Joy (1992) (uncredited) (La Cité de la joie France)
Pure Luck (1991) .... Highsmith
Guilty by Suspicion
(1991) .... Felix Graff
Always Remember I Love You (1990) (TV) .... Grandfather Mendham
Running Against Time (1990) (TV) .... Doctor Koopman
The Shell Seekers (1989) (TV) .... Richard
Baby Boom (1988) TV Series .... Fritz Curtis
Tajna manastirske rakije (1988) .... Ambassador Morley
Judgment in Berlin (1988) .... Bernard Hellring
Sadie and Son (1987) (TV) .... Marty Goldstein (Detective Sadie & Son (USA: video title))
Baby Boom (1987) .... Fritz Curtis
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) .... David Warfield
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987) (TV) .... District Attorney
Raw Deal (1986) .... Luigi Patrovita
Berrenger's (1985) TV Series .... Simon Berrenger (1985)
Embassy (1985) (TV) .... Ambassador Arthur Ingram
The Aviator
(1985) .... Bruno Hansen
Deceptions (1985) (TV) .... Jim Nolan
Heartsounds (1984) (TV) .... Moe Silverman
Irreconcilable Differences (1984) .... David Kessler
The Ghost Writer (1984) (TV) .... E.I. Lonoff
I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982) (TV) .... Frank Tosconi
Our Family Business (1981) (TV) .... Ralph
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Bernard Baruch
The Competition (1980) .... Andrew Erskine
Private Benjamin
(1980) .... Teddy Benjamin
Charlie Muffin
(1979) (TV) .... Ruttgers
Contro 4 bandiere (1979) .... Ray MacDonald
Death on the Nile
(1978) (aka Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (UK)) .. Sterndale Rockford
Holocaust (1978) (mini) TV Series .... Moses Weiss
Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977) .... Bailey
Voyage of the Damned
(1976) .... Carl Rosen
The Sell-Out (1976) .... Harry Sickles
The Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) .... Stanley Goldblum
The Spiral Staircase
(1975) .... Lt. Fields
The Law (1974) (TV) .... Jules Benson
Mousey (1974) (TV) .... Inspector
Arturo UI (1972) (TV) (Stage 2: The Resistable Rise of Arturo UI (UK: series title))
Danger Route (1968) .... Lucinda
The Day the Fish Came Out (1967) .... Elias
Warning Shot
(1967) .... Frank Sanderman
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) .... Peters
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours, 11 minutes (1965) .... George Gruber
Man in the Middle (1964) .... Maj. Leon Kaufman (psychiatrist)
Taras Bulba
(1962) .... Filipenko
The Criminal (1960) .... Mike Carter
The Battle of the Sexes (1959) (voice) .... Narrator
The Secret (1954) .... Nick Delaney
Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) .... Chick Eddowes
Give Us This Day (1949) .... Geremio
My Girl Tisa (1948) .... Mark Denek

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