Wallace Eddinger

Wallace Eddinger
Eddinger c. 1920
Born	July 14, 1881/or 1883 Albany, New York
Died	January 8, 1929 (1929-01-09) (aged 47) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Resting place	Amityville Cemetery, Suffolk County New York[1]
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1888-1928
Spouse(s)	Ivy Lee Callender Margaret Lawrence

Wallace Eddinger (July 14, 1881/1883^[2] – January 8, 1929) was an American stage actor. He started as a child actor, known as Wally Eddinger. As a child he played Cedric in Little Lord Fauntleroy which starred female child sensation Elsie Leslie.^[3]

Eddinger appeared in only two silent films, The Great Diamond Robbery and A Gentleman of Leisure, in 1914 and 1915 respectively, preferring the stage. The latter film still survives.

Eddinger was born to actors Lawrence Eddinger (1855-1928) and May (née Williams) (1858-1944) and had an older sister Lorle Eddinger (1879-1969).^[4] He was married twice, first to Ivy Lee Moore-La Grove from 1912 to 1920, and second to popular stage actress Margaret Lawrence (1889-1929) from 1924 until his death. Lawrence had been previously married to a publisher named Orson Munn, with whom she had two daughters. Six months after Eddinger's death, Margaret Lawrence was murdered in New York City by her lover, actor Louis Bennison, after a drunken lover's quarrel. Bennison then killed himself in what was deemed a murder-suicide.^[5]

References

External links

• Media related to Wallace Eddinger at Wikimedia Commons
• Wallace Eddinger at IMDb
• Wallace Eddinger at the Internet Broadway Database
• Wallace Eddinger in The Third Degree 1909 (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)