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- Wanamaker was born in Chicago, the son of tailor Maurice Wattenmacker (Manus Watmakher) and Molly (née Bobele). His parents were both Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. His father Maurice was from Mykolaiv, in present-day Ukraine.
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Early life. Wanamaker was born in Chicago, the son of tailor Maurice Wattenmacker (Manus Watmakher) [1] and Molly (née Bobele). His parents were both Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. [2] His father Maurice was from Mykolaiv, in present-day Ukraine. [3]
Jun 14, 2018 · Sam Wanamaker was born on 14 June 1919, in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. His love affair with the idea of the Globe began in 1933 when as a 14-year-old he attended the Chicago World Fair, an international celebration in which Britain’s contribution was a mock reconstruction of Shakespeare’s original Globe Theatre. By 1936, Sam ...
Jun 14, 2019 · All I knew at this point was that Sam – who I was meeting for the first time – had been devoting more and more time to his impossible dream, since he’d been inspired by a dusty plaque on a brewery wall in darkest Southwark back in 1949, when he was in London to make a forgettable film.
Jul 24, 2012 · Sam Wanamaker discovered his love for the theatre early on. He trained at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, after which he began working with summer stock theatre companies in Chicago and northern Wisconsin, where he was a founding member of the Peninsula Players Theatre in 1937.
Born in Chicago in 1919, Wanamaker had a dogged entrepreneurial zeal that was often mistaken for American excess in the London theatrical establishment, especially since he was always aware...
Dec 19, 1993 · Sam Wanamaker, whose enduring vision of restoring Shakespeare’s Globe Theater was nearing reality, died Saturday at his London home. The trustees of the Globe Playhouse Trust, which Wanamaker...
Apr 21, 2017 · In 1949, a young American actor of some distinction, Sam Wanamaker, arrived in London. He was making a pre-emptive dash and quitting the United States before the House of Un-American Activities Committee got to him and made his departure less voluntary, and more necessary.
