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Raymond Walburn
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Actor Born: September 9, 1887 in Plymouth, IN Death: July 28, 1969 in New York Biography:Born in Indiana, "Raymond Walburn" began his theatrical career in Oakland, California, where his actress mother had relocated. Walburn was 18 when he made his stage debut in "MacBeth", for the princely sum of $5 a week; he immediately, albeit inadvertently, established himself as a comic actor when his line "Fillet of a fenny snake" came out as "Fillet of a funny snake." The following year, Walburn was acting in stock in San Francisco, where the old adage "the show must go on" was tested to the utmost when one of his performances was interrupted by the 1906 earthquake (at least, that was his story). In 1911, he made his Broadway bow in Greyhound; it was a flop, as were Walburn's subsequent New York appearances over the next five years. He finally managed to latch onto a hit when he was cast in the long-running "Come Out of the Kitchen". Following his World War I service, Walburn hit his stride as a... Full Biography
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