John Ireland
Adding categories pertaining to upbringing, adding citation
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Ireland was born in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]] on January 30, 1914.{{cite web | url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/john-ireland/ | title=John Ireland | newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] | access-date=July 17, 2013}} He lived in New York City from a very early age. Ireland's formal education ended at the 7th grade, and he worked to help his family make ends meet. |
Ireland was born in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]] on January 30, 1914.{{cite web | url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/john-ireland/ | title=John Ireland | newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] | access-date=July 17, 2013}} He lived in New York City from a very early age, where he was raised in poverty in [[Harlem]]. Ireland's formal education ended at the 7th grade, and he worked to help his family make ends meet. |
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He never knew his natural father; his mother, a Scottish piano teacher Gracie Ferguson, remarried to Michael Noone, an Irish vaudevillian, and had three other children, a daughter Kathryn, a son named Thomas (the future actor-comedian [[Tommy Noonan]]), and another son, Michael. Their last name was Noone; Ireland never knew for sure where his last name came from. |
He never knew his natural father; his mother, a Scottish piano teacher Gracie Ferguson, remarried to Michael Noone, an Irish vaudevillian, and had three other children, a daughter Kathryn, a son named Thomas (the future actor-comedian [[Tommy Noonan]]), and another son, Michael. Their last name was Noone; Ireland never knew for sure where his last name came from. |
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One day he was passing the Davenport Free Theater in [[Manhattan]]. He entered, thinking it offered a free show and instead received free training. He slept in a dressing room and was paid a dollar a day to work backstage while rehearsing lines.{{Citation needed |date=October 2021}} |
One day he was passing the Davenport Free Theater in [[Manhattan]]. He entered, thinking it offered a free show and instead received free training. He slept in a dressing room and was paid a dollar a day to work backstage while rehearsing lines.{{Citation needed |date=October 2021}} |
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In 1941 he made his Broadway debut in a production of ''[[Macbeth (play)|Macbeth]]'' with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson. Other Broadway plays followed.{{Cite news|last=Lambert|first=Bruce|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/23/arts/john-ireland-78-longtime-actor-with-role-in-all-the-king-s-men.html|title=John Ireland, 78, Longtime Actor With Role in 'All the King's Men'"|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 22, 1992}} |
In 1941 he made his Broadway debut in a production of ''[[Macbeth (play)|Macbeth]]'' with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson. Other Broadway plays followed.{{Cite news|last=Lambert|first=Bruce|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/23/arts/john-ireland-78-longtime-actor-with-role-in-all-the-king-s-men.html|title=John Ireland, 78, Longtime Actor With Role in 'All the King's Men'"|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 22, 1992}} |
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===20th Century Fox=== |
===20th Century Fox=== |
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[[Category:1992 deaths]] |
[[Category:1992 deaths]] |
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[[Category:Film directors from Vancouver]] |
[[Category:Film directors from Vancouver]] |
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[[Category:Film directors from New York City]] |
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[[Category:Male actors from New York City]] |
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[[Category:Male actors from Vancouver]] |
[[Category:Male actors from Vancouver]] |
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[[Category:Canadian male film actors]] |
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[[Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States]] |
[[Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States]] |
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[[Category:Deaths from leukemia in California]] |
[[Category:Deaths from leukemia in California]] |
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[[Category:People from Harlem]] |
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[[Category:Male Spaghetti Western actors]] |
[[Category:Male Spaghetti Western actors]] |
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[[Category:20th-century American male actors]] |
[[Category:20th-century American male actors]] |
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