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Frederick Barkham Warde was born at Deddington, Oxfordshire, England, son of Thomas and Anne (Barkham) Warde. His father, a country schoolmaster, died while Frederick was young. The mother moved to Sussex.
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Frederick Barkham Warde was born at Deddington, Oxfordshire, England, son of Thomas and Anne (Barkham) Warde. His father, a country schoolmaster, died while Frederick was young. The mother moved to Sussex.
He attended the Shoreham Protestant Grammar School. He wrote a very pleasant book of reminiscences called Fifty Years of Make-Believe (1920), and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Southern California.
Later he moved to London, where he was articled to a firm of attorneys. The attraction of the stage was greater than that of the law, however, and he joined a small provincial company, making his first appearance on the stage at Sunderland, September 4, 1867, as the Second Murderer in Macbeth. He received valuable training and experience, playing in Glasgow, Leeds, and Manchester, and supporting, among others, Henry Irving and Adelaide Neilson. He made his first American appearance, August 10, 1874, at Booth's Theatre, New York, as Capt. Marston Pike in Boucicault's Civil War drama Belle Lamar. The play was not successful, but the young actor was, and subsequently he played Shakespearean parts with John McCullough, Edwin Booth, and Charlotte Cushman. He remained at Booth's Theatre for three years, then in 1877 supported Mme. Janauschek and in 1878 was with the Lingards. In 1881 he made his début as a star and toured, playing Hamlet, Virginius, Richard III, Damon, and Shylock. In ensuing seasons he also played Henry IV, King Lear, and Henry VIII with Elizabeth Crocker Bowers. From 1893 to 1896 he was in partnership with Louis James, touring in the standard classical plays. In 1898 a combination of three stars was formed, and with Kathryn Kidder and Louis James he played The School for Scandal, Julius Cæsar, Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet. In 1907 Warde appeared in a new rôle, that of lecturer on Shakespeare and other topics connected with the drama, and in 1913 he published The Fools of Shakespeare, created out of his lectures. After three years of absence he returned to the stage and played Timon in Timon of Athens. It was necessary to add Julius Cæsar in order to make the tour successful. In 1911 he played Nobody in Everywoman; in 1914, Altoum in A Thousand Years Ago; and in 1919, Father Junípero Serra in The Mission Play at San Gabriel, Cal. In 1922 he made several motion pictures, including King Lear, Richard III, Silas Marner, and The Vicar of Wakefield. He was also heard on the radio. In 1922 he became an American citizen. He retired from active life in 1923 and died of arteriosclerosis and heart disease in his eighty-fourth year at the home of a daughter in Brooklyn, N. Y.
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In 1871 Warde married Annie Edmondson, an English actress, who died in 1923. They had two sons, Arthur Frederick and Ernest Charles, and two daughters, Annie Emelia and May.