Ezra Kendall Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Ezra Kendall Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Ezra Kendall (February 15, 1861 â€" January 23, 1910) was an American

actor-comedian, humorist, playwright and author who was known for his

depiction of typical New England Yankees. During his time in

vaudeville Kendall was said to have been among the highest paid

monologist in America.Ezra Freemont Kendall was born on a farm near

Centerville, New York, to Ezra W. and Eliza R. (née Pratt) Kendall.

The September following his birth, Kendall's father enlisted as a

sergeant with Company D, 64th Infantry Regiment, New York and soon

rose to lieutenant before losing his life during the Battle of Seven

Pines.Kendall left school at fourteen to work as a printer's

assistant. At seventeen he traveled to New York City where he became a

cub reporter on several newspapers and the youngest member of the New

York Press Club. By nineteen or twenty he was touring with a theatre

company playing walk-on rôles for free board and laundry service.

Later Kendall replaced the troupe's property man at $4 a-week before

making his professional stage debut as an English butler in Elliott

Barnes' melodrama, Only a Farmer's Daughter.He later toured in Lillian

Cleves' Grump, Elliott Barnes' Dr. Clyde, Wallack and Hinds' Criterion

-Comedy Company and Edward ("Teddy") Byron's, Summer Boarders. Around

1882 Kendall organized a minstrel company with Horace Johnson, which

lasted a short period, and next partnered with comedian Alfred Klein,

in an act that collapsed after one week. Kendall later starred in the

original Muggs' Landing and in early 1884 scored a hit in Wanted, a

Partner with a run that lasted until late spring. Over the summer of

1884 he worked as an advance agent for a minstrel show before

beginning the 1884â€"1885 season performing with William A. Mestayer's

company in A Box of Matches.
Ezra Kendall Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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