Wise, Thomas A.

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 592 words | Copyright

Wise, Thomas A. (1865–1928), character actor. The burly performer was born in Faversham, England, but came to America while still young and made his debut in Dixon, California, later touring with Joseph Grismer and then with William Gillette. He is best recalled for such roles as Amos Bloodgood in Are You a Mason? (1902), the muckraking senator William Langdon in A Gentleman from Mississippi (1908), and Falstaff in a 1916 revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor. With Harrison Rhodes, his collaborator on A Gentleman from Mississippi, he wrote several other less successful plays.

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