Robert Bolder
Robert Bolder (1859–1937) was an English stage and film actor
Also found as Bob Bolder in some sources.
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Biography
Born Robert Joseph Edney in London on 20 July 1859, he began his career in London, and was for a time a member of Mabel Hayes's touring company on its visits to South Africa, and in August of 1888 even billed as co-manager of The Bob Bolder-Mabel Hayes Company, when it appeared in Pretoria during August (inter alia with a provocatively satirical presentation of Aladdin).
In the early part of the 20th-century Bolder seems to have moved to the USA and become involved in several Broadway productions, before moving into silent film. He ultimately appeared in 99 films between 1912 and 1936, and died in Los Angeles on 10 December 1937.
His daughter, Sylvia Edney, who also became an actress and visited South Africa as a six-year old in 1906 with a Comedy Company brought together by the Wheeler Company.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bolder
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092780/== Biography ==
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 475, 379, 382, 426.
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