William Warren

William Warren (1812–1888) was an American actor. For decades he performed with the theater at the old Boston Museum.

Biography Warren was born in Philadelphia on November 17, 1812, the son of actor William Warren and his third wife, Esther Fortune. He was educated at the Franklin Institute, then a boys' school, in that city. After his father's death in 1832, he made his debut a week later at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia in the part of Young Norval. His father had been an actor, first in Britain, and began his career on stage with that character. The young Warren first performed in New York City in 1841, in London in 1845, and in Boston in 1846. He played a wide variety of characters, from broad and eccentric comedy to juvenile tragedy, with general acceptance. During the last few years of this period he performed in a company headed by his brother-in-law, John Blake Rice. Warren was never charged in the case, and Mercer ultimately recovered from his injury.

Warren died in Boston on September 21, 1888.