Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (February 4, 1864 â€" October 2, 1918)
was an American actor, theatre manager, and playwright.Arden was born
in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mary Berkley Hunter and Arden Richard
Smith. After a common-school education he travelled west and worked in
a number of different jobs, including as a mine-helper, cowboy,
railroad brakeman, clerk, reporter, and theatre manager. In 1882, he
made his debut as an actor with Thomas W. Keene's Shakespeare company.
The next year, in 1883, he married Agnes Ann Eagleson Keene. Their
only child, daughter Mildred Arden, also became an actor. Around this
time, he wrote several plays, including The Eagle's Nest, Raglan's
Way, Barred Out, and Zorah.He worked with a number of theatrical
companies over the next thirty years, performing in such works as
Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon, Victorien Sardou's Fédora, and in an
all-star production of Romeo and Juliet at the Knickerbocker Theatre
in New York. In his later years, he had his own stock theatre company
in Washington, D.C. He starred in silent films such as The Beloved
Vagabond (1915).
was an American actor, theatre manager, and playwright.Arden was born
in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mary Berkley Hunter and Arden Richard
Smith. After a common-school education he travelled west and worked in
a number of different jobs, including as a mine-helper, cowboy,
railroad brakeman, clerk, reporter, and theatre manager. In 1882, he
made his debut as an actor with Thomas W. Keene's Shakespeare company.
The next year, in 1883, he married Agnes Ann Eagleson Keene. Their
only child, daughter Mildred Arden, also became an actor. Around this
time, he wrote several plays, including The Eagle's Nest, Raglan's
Way, Barred Out, and Zorah.He worked with a number of theatrical
companies over the next thirty years, performing in such works as
Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon, Victorien Sardou's Fédora, and in an
all-star production of Romeo and Juliet at the Knickerbocker Theatre
in New York. In his later years, he had his own stock theatre company
in Washington, D.C. He starred in silent films such as The Beloved
Vagabond (1915).
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