Marshall Stedman

Marshall Stedman

Who’s Who in the Film World, 1914
Born Edward Marshall Stedman, Jr.
(1874-08-16)August 16, 1874
Bethel, Maine, USA
Died December 16, 1943(1943-12-16) (aged 69)
Laguna Beach, California, USA
Occupation Actor, Director Author and Drama Teacher
Spouse(s) Myrtle Stedman
Rieka Kulaars
Children Lincoln Stedman

Marshall Stedman (1874–1943) was an American stage and silent screen actor/director, playwright, author and drama teacher.

Early life

Edward Marshall Stedman, Jr. was born in Bethel, Maine on August 16, 1874, the son of Edward, Sr. and Eliza Putnam (née Rice) Stedman.[1][2] His father was a decorated naval officer who at the time of his death in 1939 had been the oldest surviving graduate of the United States Naval Academy and one of only three retired naval officers who saw service during the American Civil War.[3] Stedman received his early education in Chicago at South Division High School and the Harvard Preparatory School before attending Colorado College in Colorado Springs.[4]

Career

Marshall Stedman began his theater career at around the age of eighteen with William Morris’ stock company playing Bob Appleton in Ludwig Fulda’s three-act drama, “The Lost Paradise”, and Ned Annesley in “Sowing the Wind,” a four-act play by Sydney Grundy. He later joined E. H. Sothern for two seasons and went on to star in a number of one-act plays and tour in Shakespearean repertoire productions.[2][5][6]

For some years around 1900 Stedman lived in Gilpin County, Colorado with his father, sister Agnes, grandmother Miriam, uncle Josiah Stedman and later his wife Myrtle. News reports of the day indicated his family was involved in a mining venture near America City called the Charlemagne Lode.[7][8][9]

In 1906 Stedman was named head of the drama school at the Chicago Musical College, a position he would hold for some four years. Later he spent a season in vaudeville before venturing into film work as a director with Essanay Studios and later the Selig Polyscope Company, as an actor, director, writer and producer. Several years later Stedman returned to teaching as a drama instructor with the Eagan School of Drama and Music in Los Angeles.[2]

In the years that followed, Marshall Stedman would continue to teach, act and write. He played a number of villain roles in films made by Hobart Bosworth and returned to the stage in community theater productions performed by his students, often in plays he wrote. In the late 1920s Stedman founded the Marshall Stedman School of Drama and Elocution in Culver City, California.[4]

Marriage

On January 13, 1900 Marshall Stedman married in Chicago Myrtle C. Lincoln; a young actress not yet seventeen. Lincoln Stedman,[10] their only child, was born a year or two later and would go on to have his own career in Hollywood. Stedman and his wife separated around 1919 and a divorce soon followed.[11][12][13] He later married Rieka Kulaars, a native of The Netherlands.[4]

Death

Marshall Stedman died at the age of 69 on December 16, 1943, in Laguna Beach. He was survived by his son Lincoln who would die himself before the close of the decade.[14][15][16]

Selected works

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Sources

  1. ↑ Marshall Stedman – WWI Draft Registration – Ancestry.com scan
  2. 1 2 3 Who's Who in the Film World - edited by Fred C. Justice &Tom R. Smith - Film World Publishing – 1914 - pg. 42
  3. ↑ Edward Stedman, Naval Officer, 94 New York Times - October 17, 1939; pg. 25
  4. 1 2 3 California and Californians: Volume 3,Rockwell Dennis Hunt, Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez, Rockwell - 1926 - pg. 279 - Google Books
  5. ↑ The Lost Paradise -Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
  6. ↑ Sowing the Wind – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
  7. ↑ Gilpin County Mines Items of Interest from All Parts of the County - Weekly Register-Call, (Central City, CO) Friday, December 01, 1899; Issue 26; col. C
  8. ↑ Gilpin County Mines The Lombard at Yankee Hill Opening out into a Big Mine - Weekly Register-Call, (Central City, CO) Friday, July 21, 1899; Issue 7; col B
  9. ↑ Stedman, Gilpin County, Co. – 1900 US Census – Ancestry.com scan
  10. ↑ Lincoln's birth year is often given as 1906 or 1907. The 1910 and 1920 census records indicate though, the event actually occurred around 1902
  11. ↑ Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920 – Ancestry.com
  12. ↑ Myrtle Stedman Divorced -The Sandusky Star Journal - October 25, 1919; pg. 5 – Ancestry.com scan
  13. ↑ News Notes from Movieland by Daisy Dean - The Sandusky Star Journal November 27, 1920 pg. 4, Ancestry.com scan
  14. ↑ Rights For Ex-Actor - San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Texas) Sunday, December 19, 1943 - Pg. 12
  15. ↑ California Death Index Edward Marshall Stedman – Ancestry.com
  16. ↑ Lincoln Stedman - New York Times, March 23, 1948; pg. 25
  17. ↑ List compiled from Google Books and Amazon.com
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