Biography
From Wikipedia
Richard Bennett (May 21, 1870 – October 22, 1944) was an
American actor who became a stage and silent screen matinee idol over the early
decades of the twentieth century.
He was born in Deacon's Mills, Indiana in 1870 (some sources
state 1872), the son of George Washington Bennett and Eliza Huffman. His
younger sister was Ina Blanche Bennett. For a time, he was a sailor on Great
Lakes steamer, a professional boxer, medicine showman, troubadour and night
clerk in a hotel in Chicago.
His silent movie debut was a reprisal of his stage role in
Damaged Goods (1914), which co-starred his wife, Adrienne Morrison. He helped
adapt the screenplay and direct the drama. In the drama The Valley of Decision
(1916), which he wrote, Bennett appeared on the screen with his wife, Morrison,
and his three daughters.
In 1922, Bennett starred in Broadway's English-language
version of Leonid Andreyev's melodrama He Who Gets Slapped, playing the title
role as He. The success of