Mace Greenleaf (December 8, 1872 â€" March 23, 1912) was an American
stage and silent film actor.Mace Greenleaf was born at Dixfield,
Maine, the only child of Charles Ward and Mary (née Eustis)
Greenleaf. Charles Greenleaf was a native of Massachusetts and
supported his family employed as a surveyor.Greenleaf's first
important role came in the late 1890s playing Herbert, the king's
forester, in stock productions of The Prisoner of Zenda and its
companion piece Rupert of Hentzau. In 1898, he played Mr. Hunston in
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells' that opened at
the Lyceum Theatre in New York on November 22, 1898. His next Broadway
performance was in The Pride of Jennico with James K. Hackett and
Bertha Galland staged at the Criterion Theatre in 1900. Later that
year, he played Myrtle May's lover in a road production of The Parish
Priest with Daniel Sully.During the first decade of the 20th century,
Mace Greenleaf played leading roles in stock companies on both coasts
and middle America. He returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the prince
of Wales in the romantic musical Edmund Burke. In 1911, he joined the
fledgling motion picture industry where he would appear in at least 18
films over the last year or so of his life.
stage and silent film actor.Mace Greenleaf was born at Dixfield,
Maine, the only child of Charles Ward and Mary (née Eustis)
Greenleaf. Charles Greenleaf was a native of Massachusetts and
supported his family employed as a surveyor.Greenleaf's first
important role came in the late 1890s playing Herbert, the king's
forester, in stock productions of The Prisoner of Zenda and its
companion piece Rupert of Hentzau. In 1898, he played Mr. Hunston in
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play Trelawny of the 'Wells' that opened at
the Lyceum Theatre in New York on November 22, 1898. His next Broadway
performance was in The Pride of Jennico with James K. Hackett and
Bertha Galland staged at the Criterion Theatre in 1900. Later that
year, he played Myrtle May's lover in a road production of The Parish
Priest with Daniel Sully.During the first decade of the 20th century,
Mace Greenleaf played leading roles in stock companies on both coasts
and middle America. He returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the prince
of Wales in the romantic musical Edmund Burke. In 1911, he joined the
fledgling motion picture industry where he would appear in at least 18
films over the last year or so of his life.
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