Background
Eddinger, Wallace was born on July 14, 1881 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Lawrence and May Eddinger.
Eddinger, Wallace was born on July 14, 1881 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Lawrence and May Eddinger.
He started as a child actor, known as Wally Eddinger. As a child he played Cedric in Little Lord Fauntleroy which starred female child sensation Elsie Leslie. Eddinger appeared in only two silent films, The Great Diamond Robbery and A Gentleman of Leisure, in 1914 and 1915 respectively, preferring the stage.
The latter film still survives.
Eddinger was married twice. The first marriage was to Ivy Lee Moore-Louisiana Grove from 1912 to 1920 and the second was to popular stage actress Margaret Lawrence (1889-1929) from 1924 to his death.
Lawrence had been previously married to a publisher named Orson Munn with whom she had two daughters. Six months after Eddinger"s death, Margaret Lawrence was murdered in New York City by her lover, actor Louis Bennison, after a drunken lover"s quarrel.
Bennison then took his own life in what was deemed a murder suicide.