Harry B. Waring

(b. Coventry, 1883? – d. Leamington, 1923) British actor. The H.B. Waring listed as having acted in five short films for African Film Productions is probably English actor Harry B. Waring. There are various references to him appearing in a number of relatively small parts in plays between 1912 and 1915, but in 1916 he turns up in South Africa to act in A Story of the Rand (Lorimer Johnston/1916), An Artist’s Inspiration (Harold M.Shaw/1916), A Kract Affair (B.F. Clinton/1916), The Water Cure (B.F. Clinton/1916) and The Major’s Dilemma (Dick Cruikshanks & Joseph Albrecht/1917). To the latter he also contributed the story. In 1919 he was in Singapore with the Howitt-Phillips Company and the following year The New York Clipper reports that he is recruiting actors for a repertory company to tour the Far East, including India, China, Japan, the Philippines and Malaya. It’s not known whether the H.B. Waring Repertory Company made it to all these countries, but in March 1921 The Straits Times reports that the troupe is about to open at the Victoria Theatre in Singapore in a series of performances. Then, according to Variety of 1 July 1921 the company is stranded in Java without the means to return home (something denied by the London representative), but in 1922 Waring himself is still in India and appears in Laila Majnu, a silent Indian film directed by J.J. Madan. He was killed in a motor accident in Leamington, near Coventry. (FO)

Sources

The Straits Times, 5 June 1919

The New York Clipper, 3 March 1920

The Straits Times, 28 March 1921

Variety, 1 July 1921

The Straits Times, 13 November 1923

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