Frederick Warde
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Frederick Warde (23 February 1851, Wardington, Oxfordshire, England - 7 February 1935, Brooklyn, New York) was a Shakesperian actor who moved from Britain to the United States in the late 1800's. He had two notable achievements, one being the "discovery" of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and persuading him to move from Denver to join Warde's New York City actors troupe. The second was being the star of the oldest surviving American feature film, Richard the Third (1912), based on the play by William Shakespeare. This feature film was re-discovered in 1996 by a private film collector who donated it to the American Film Institute archive.
