William Graham Moffat was a Scottish actor, director, playwright and spiritualist.
10 Facts About Graham Moffat
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Moffat formed a Men's League for Women's Suffrage in Glasgow in 1907 after his wife Maggie Moffat was arrested at a protest in London and imprisoned for refusing to pay the fine.
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Graham Moffat is known for his 1910 comedy Bunty Pulls the Strings which was a hit on Broadway.
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Graham Moffat was born on 21 February 1866 to William Moffat and Helen Dobson.
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Graham Moffat was married in 1897 to the stage actress and costume designer, Margaret Liddell Linck.
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Graham Moffat's wife was a suffragist, and in 1907 Graham Moffat founded the Men's League for Women's Suffrage in Glasgow.
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Graham Moffat penned a suffrage propaganda play, The Maid and the Magistrate.
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Graham Moffat toured Bunty Pulls the Strings in New Zealand in 1914 The play was made into a film in 1921.
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Graham Moffat himself directed at least one film, Till the Bells Ring, a 46-minute experimental sound film based on the comedy of the same name he mounted in 1908.
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Graham Moffat was living in Cape Town, South Africa, by 1950 and he died there in 1951, aged 85.