Malcolm Cherry

Malcolm Cherry (17 May 1878 – 13 April 1925) was an English actor.

Life and career Malcolm Gibson Cherry was born in Liverpool on 17 May, 1878, the son of William Francis Cherry, a cotton broker, and his wife Emily, Lees.

Cherry made his first appearance on the stage at the Queen's Theatre, Manchester, 1897, as Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra with Louis Calvert, subsequently playing in Hamlet, and other Shakespeare plays at the same theatre. In 1900 he toured with Julia Neilson in As You Like It. His West End debut was in Sweet Nell of Old Drury at the Haymarket Theatre in August 1900, and played intermittently in Neilson and Fred Terry's company between then and 1912. In May 1919 he succeeded Charles Hawtrey in the leading male role in Frederick J. Jackson's comedy The Naughty Wife, co-starring with Gladys Cooper,

As a playwright, Cherry co-wrote Mr Jarvis, seen at Wyndham's Theatre in 1911 and Jack o' Jingles, seen at the New Theatre in 1919.

Cherry was twice married: first to Kathleen Doyle and secondly to the actress Una Vane. He died in London on 13 April 1925.

Selected filmography Far from the Madding Crowd (1915) A Welsh Singer (1916) A Place in the Sun (1916) Grim Justice (1916) A Member of Tattersall's (1919) Linked by Fate (1919) The Call of Youth (1921)

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