Weber, Joe (actually, Morris Joseph)
Weber, Joe (actually, Morris Joseph)
Weber, Joe (actually, Morris Joseph ), American actor, singer, producer, and director; b. N.Y., Aug. 11,1867; d. Los Angeles, May 10,1942. At the age of 10, he appeared on stage for the first time with the youthful Lew Fields, and for the next 20 years, they toured regularly as the comedy duo of Weber and Fields. They then opened Weber and Field’s Broadway Music Hall in N.Y. in 1896, and subsequently presented highly successful burlesques and variety musicals. They dissolved their partnership in 1904, but in later years made a few appearances together. Weber spent his succeeding years mainly as a producer of musicals.
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