Sam Wanamaker
Samuel "Sam" Wanamaker ( born June 14, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois; † 18 December 1993 ) was an American actor and director.
Biography
Sam Wanamaker was born in Chicago and made a successful career on Broadway. In the McCarthy era, he was persecuted for his political views. He was then in England, where he successfully brought several controversial plays to the stage. From 1960, he also made another theater in America, and in 1973 he opened the Sydney Opera House with a stage version of War and Peace.
But he gained as an initiator for the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre in London, which he called the Shakespeare Globe Foundation launched in 1971 worldwide fame. The completion of his life's work, the completion of the Globe in London, he did not live. He died in 1993, four years before the re-opening of the Globe Theatre in 1997, from cancer.
He is the father of actress Zoë Wanamaker. Opened on 9 January 2014, thought part of the Globe bears in memory of him the name of Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.