Background
Gillette, William was born on July 24, 1855 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Francis G. (United States senator from Connecticut) and Elizabeth Daggett (Hooker) G.
Gillette, William was born on July 24, 1855 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Francis G. (United States senator from Connecticut) and Elizabeth Daggett (Hooker) G.
Academic education; special courses at University of New York, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Boston University, while playing in stock companies in New York and Boston. Unmarried.
Began theatrical work, 1877. With stock companies successively at New Orleans, New York, Boston, Cincinnati and Louisville. Traveled for a season with John T. Raymond Company.
Since then has played his own pieces almost exclusively, though appeared in “Samson,” “Diplomacy,” “The Admirable Crichton,” “A Successful Calamity,” “Dear Brutus,” et cetera
( This political history of New Jersey during the Civil W...)
Member American Academy Arts and Letters.