Richard Bennett
actor, miscellaneous, writer
- Birth name:
- Clarence Charles William Henry Richard Bennett
- Born:
- 1870-05-21, Deer Creek, Indiana, USA
- Died:
- 1944-10-22, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, miscellaneous, writer
Biography
Richard Bennett entered the world on 21 May 1870 amid the quiet cornfields of Deer Creek, Indiana, and left it 74 years later under the klieg lights of Los Angeles on 22 October 1944. Between those dates he carved a formidable path across the American stage and screen, writing and performing with equal fire. Modern audiences still feel his presence through the proud, doomed patriarch in *The Magnificent Ambersons* (1942), the idealistic doctor in *Arrowsmith* (1931), and the small-town dreamer of *The Home Towners* (1928). Off-camera, three women—Aimee Raisch Hastings, Adrienne Morrison, and Grena Heller—shared the role of his wife across the decades, each chapter of matrimony adding its own drama to a life already rich with it.
