29 Facts About Hobart Bosworth

Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer.

Hobart Bosworth is known as the "Dean of Hollywood" for his role in shaping the California film industry.

In 1960, Hobart Bosworth was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.

Hobart Bosworth was born on August 11,1867, in Marietta, Ohio.

Hobart Bosworth's father was a sea captain during the Civil War.

Hobart Bosworth was eighteen years old and on the cusp of a life in the theater.

Hobart Bosworth signed on with Lewis Morrison to be part of a road company for a season as both an actor and as Morrison's dresser, playing Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Measure for Measure.

Hobart Bosworth became proficient enough on stage to give Shakespearean canon by the time he was twenty-one years old, though he admitted that he was the worst Macbeth ever.

Hobart Bosworth escaped the pits to tour with the magician Hermann the Great as the conjurer's assistant for a tour through Mexico.

Hobart Bosworth signed with Julia Marlowe, who cast him in leads in Shakespearean plays.

Just as Hobart Bosworth began to taste stage stardom in New York, he was stricken with tuberculosis, a disease often fatal in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Hobart Bosworth was forced to give up the stage, and he was not allowed to exert himself indoors.

Hobart Bosworth moved to Tempe, Arizona, to partake of the climate to improve his health.

Hobart Bosworth moved to San Diego, and in 1908 he was contracted to make a motion picture by the Selig Polyscope Company.

Hobart Bosworth is widely credited with being the star of the first movie made on the West Coast.

Hobart Bosworth wrote the scenarios for the second and third pictures he acted in, and directed the third.

Hobart Bosworth was attracted to Jack London's work due to his out-of-doors filming experience and the requirements of his health, which precluded acting in studios.

Hobart Bosworth directed the follow-up, The Valley of the Moon, in which had a supporting actor role.

Hobart Bosworth appeared as an actor in John Barleycorn, which he co-directed with J Charles Haydon.

Hobart Bosworth produced, directed, wrote, and acted in Martin Eden and An Odyssey of the North, playing the lead in the latter, which was released by Paramount.

Hobart Bosworth finished up the series by producing, directing, and playing the lead in the two-part "Burning Daylight" series, The Adventures of Burning Daylight.

The merger with Paramount ended the period in Hobart Bosworth's creative life where he was a major force in the motion picture industry, which was undergoing changes as the industry matured and solidified.

Hobart Bosworth directed one other picture before the merger, The White Scar, which he wrote and starred in for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

Hobart Bosworth divorced his first wife, Adele Farrington, in 1919.

Cecile Kibre had a son by Percival, named George, whom Hobart Bosworth later adopted as his son.

In 1931, Hobart Bosworth was cast in principal role of fictional famed explorer in the Antarctic, in Frank Capra's "Dirigible".

Soon, Hobart Bosworth was rushed to hospital with ice burns in his mouth, resulting in removal of some teeth, jaw bone, and tissue.

On December 30,1943, Hobart Bosworth died of pneumonia in Glendale, California, aged 76.

Hobart Bosworth was entombed in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Grand Mausoleum's Utility Columbarium, niche 4616.