James Durkin (May 21, 1876 – March 12, 1934) was a Canadian-American actor and director of the stage and screen.
5-503: James Durkin may refer to: James Durkin (actor) (1879–1934), Canadian-born American actor and director Jim Durkin (James B. Durkin, born 1961), member of the Illinois House of Representatives [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-494: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Durkin&oldid=932901386 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Durkin (actor) He was born in Quebec on May 21, 1876. Durkin's father
15-510: The play Julie Bonbon . The following year, he played the male lead in the play Margaret Fleming at Chicago's New Theatre. While working on Broadway, he met actress Maude Fealy and became her second husband on November 28, 1909. They divorced in 1917. According to the Internet Broadway Database , he acted in six Broadway productions from 1906 to 1923 and directed Chivalry (1925-1926). After several years on
20-577: The stage, Durkin moved into film. He worked for the Thanhouser Company from late spring 1913 to 1914, acting and directing his wife. When Fealy and Durkin left Thanhouser, the trade journal Variety speculated that the couple planned to start a film company of their own. In June 1915, he signed on with the Famous Players Film Company as a director. In December of the same year, Durkin left Famous-Players, signing
25-611: Was a Commissioner of Crown Lands for the province of Quebec. He was a graduate of De La Salle College in Toronto. In 1904, he was part of a theater company in San Francisco , until his contract was terminated after it was revealed that he had been having an affair with Frances Starr , another member of the company; Durkin then abandoned his wife and "left [San Francisco] for the East". In 1906, he made his Broadway debut in
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