Waldron, Charles D.

(1874-1946)

   A native of Waterford, New York, Charles D. Waldron debuted in 1898 and spent several seasons in stock before his first major New York appearance in The Warrens of Virginia (1907). His long career, during which he made a seamless transition from leading man to character actor, included the title role in Daddy Long Legs (1914), as well as The Woman in Room 13 (1919), The Passion Flower (1920), A Bill of Divorcement (1921), Coquette (1927), The Barretts of Wimpole Street* (1931), The Pursuit of Happiness* (1933), and Deep Are the Roots* (1945). Waldron also played Claudius to Basil Sydney's Hamlet in 1925 and was Friar Laurence in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet directed by Guthrie McClintic* in 1934.