Rupert Pole was an American actor and the husband of author Anais Nin, as well as her literary executor.
10 Facts About Rupert Pole
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Rupert Pole's father, Reginald, was a highly regarded Shakespearean actor.
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Rupert Pole's parents divorced when he was a boy, and his mother, Helen Taggart, married Lloyd Wright, a son of noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The Broadway run of The Duchess of Malfi, in which Rupert Pole had a supporting role, had just ended in 1947 when he met Nin.
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Rupert Pole, who was under the impression that Nin had divorced her first husband Hugh Parker Guiler, asked Nin to accompany him to the West Coast.
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Rupert Pole received a degree in forestry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and joined the US Forest Service.
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Nin and Rupert Pole were married by a justice of the peace in Quartzsite, Arizona, on March 17,1955.
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Rupert Pole kept her marriage to Guiler secret from Pole for 11 years, but concern about the legal consequences of having two men claim her as a dependent on their tax returns led her to arranging the annulment in 1966 of the marriage with Pole.
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On Guiler's death in 1985, Rupert Pole scattered his ashes in the same place as Nin's, a cove on the coast at Santa Monica.
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Rupert Pole suffered a stroke in 2006, and died in his sleep two weeks later, at his home in Los Angeles.