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He was born on March 13, 1853 in Williamsburg, a small country town in western Massachusetts, United States, the son of Luther Clarke Presbrey, a cloth finisher who had come from Willington, Connecticut, and Julia (Hillman) Presbrey, a native of Williamsburg.
Going to Boston before he had reached the age of twenty, Presbrey became first an art student, and then dabbled in art in his own studio for several years after he had begun to make the stage his profession.
He was taken into the company at the Boston Theatre and acted minor utility parts there from 1874 to 1879, appearing under the name of E. Wiley, and sometimes as Gene Wiley, in The Two Orphans, The Exiles, Sardanapalus, and other melodramas and spectacles that were then popular. "Drifting to New York, " as he himself expressed it, he acted first at the Madison Square Theatre, then under the direction of Daniel Frohman, in The Professor and Esmeralda, and when the latter play was taken on the road he filled the position of stage director and manager.
When the Madison Square Theatre came under the direction of A. M. Palmer, he was retained by him, and remained in his employ and at Palmer's Theatre from 1884 to 1896, taking an active part in the stage production of Jim the Penman, Captain Swift, Aunt Jack, Sealed Instructions, Alabama, Triby, and many other plays. During this period he also lectured on dramatic subjects before the students of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
One of his earliest plays was The Squirrel Inn (1893) made from Frank R. Stockton's story of that title with the aid of its author, and this was followed by A Virginia Courtship (1901), its theme being that of The Rivals with its scene changed to colonial America.
He went to California in 1919, and during his later years he was associated in an advisory capacity in the motion pictures at the studios in Hollywood. Aside from his stage interests he was a designer and builder of yachts and an expert in marine and land shells, of which he had a large collection.
He died in 1931 in Hollywood, California.
Eugene Wiley Presbrey wrote, rearranged, adapted, and dramatized many popular plays, drawing his material mainly from novels and the work of other dramatists. He was primarily a play constructor, writer of seven "Raffles" films, Presbrey also wrote best-selling adaptations for "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary", "The Courtship of Miles Standish" and "The Barrier. "
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Quotations: In an interview Presbrey declared as his professional objective and as the result of his personal experience that "the ideal stage manager should be the epitome of versatility, and should be familiar with art, science, literature, music, for these are his tools. "
He was married in June 1877 to Carrie Paine, later to Annie Russell, the actress, and on June 16, 1897, to Alice L. Fifield, who with a son survived him.
