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James William Wallack (c.
1794–
1864) was an
Anglo-
American actor and manager, born in
London.
He was of a theatrical family, his parents being
actors. He made his first stage appearance at Drury Lane in
1807. After three years in
Dublin, he was again at
Drury Lane until he went to the
United States in
1818, appearing as Macbeth at the
Park Theatre, New York. He settled permanently in
New York City in 1852. The first Wallack's theatre was an old one, renamed, at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway. The second, at 13th Street and
Broadway, he built himself. His
son opened the third and last Wallack's Theatre in
1882.
Wallack was an actor of the old school.
Thackeray praised his performance as
Shylock, and
Joseph Jefferson his Don Caesar de Bazan. He married the daughter of
John Henry Johnstone (1749-1828), a popular tenor and stage Irishman; she died in
1851. Their son,
John Lester Wallack was also a famous actor.
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