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Warburton Gamble

Warburton Gamble

English actor

Evelyn Charles Warburton Gamble (16 December 1882 – 27 August 1945) was a British stage and film actor.

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Gamble with Elsie Ferguson in A Society Exile 1919.

Gamble was born on 16 December 1882 in London and acted on stage professionally as early as 1905.[1] His work on stage included a season of acting with the Theater Guild Repertory Company in San Francisco.[2] He debuted on Broadway in Love and the Man (1905), appeared with Auriol Lee in Milestones (1912) and last performed on Broadway in Tonight or Never (1930).[3]

Gamble's film debut occurred in The Unforseen (1917).[1] He spent a number of years working in Hollywood during the silent and early sound eras. He played the role of Doctor Watson in the 1933 Sherlock Holmes film A Study in Scarlet. His final two films were at Ealing Studios.

Gamble was married to English actress Gillian Scaife.[4] He died on 27 August 1945 in London.[1]

Filmography

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Bibliography

  • Hardy, Phil. The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press, 1997.

References

  1. [1]
    McMullen, Kieran (11 October 2012). The Many Watsons. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 978-1-78092-304-8. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Debate Planned on 'Strange Interlude'". The San Francisco Examiner. 10 June 1929. p. 12. Retrieved 9 June 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. [3]
    "Warburton Gamble". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 3 June 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  4. [4]
    "How They Met Wives". Los Angeles Evening Express. 13 March 1920. p. 16. Retrieved 9 June 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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