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Mace Greenleaf was born at Dixfield, Maine the only child of Charles Ward and Mary (née Eustis) Greenleaf.
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Charles Greenleaf was a native of Massachusetts and supported his family employed as a surveyor. Greenleaf"s first important role came in the late 1890s playing Herbert, the King"s forester, in stock productions of "The Prisoner of Zenda" and its companion piece, "Rupert of Hentzau". In 1898 he played Mr.
Hunston in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero"s play "Trelawny of the "Wells"" that opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York on November 22, 1898.
His next Broadway performance was in "The Pride of Jennico" with James K. Hackett and Bertha Galland staged at the Criterion Theatre in 1900. Later that year he played Myrtle May"s lover in a road production of "The Parish Priest" with Daniel Sully.
Over the first decade of the 20th century, Mace Greenleaf played leading roles in stock companies on both coasts and middle America. He returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the Prince of Wales in the romantic musical, "Edmund Burke".
In 1911 he joined the fledgling motion picture industry where he would appear in at least eighteen films over the last year or so of his life.
Mace Greenleaf died on March 23, 1912 while in Philadelphia after a brief battle with pneumonia.
