{{Short description|English actor and producer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Hubert Druce''' (May 20, 1870 – April 6, 1931) was an English actor and producer involved with English and American theater for over forty years.
Druce was born as Benjamin Hubert Druce{{Citation needed |date=April 2026}} in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, on 20 May 1870.<ref name="nytobit"/>
Before he became an actor, Druce was a writer. He created 52 nondenominational sermons that were sold in London bookstores, and he received 10 shillings for each one that was sold.<ref name="pi">{{cite news |title=He Is a Fine Actor and Playwright, Too |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-hubert-druce/196585967/ |access-date=April 29, 2026 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=September 16, 1928 |page=TH 3|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
Druce's stage debut was at age 17 in Scotland in ''The Blue Bells of Scotland''. Richard Mansfield saw him play Gryphon in ''Alice in Wonderland'' two years later and took him to America where he first appeared in 1889 at Palmer's Theatre. He then joined ''The Sign of the Cross'' touring company. After some time in productions in New York and London, he appeared in New York in 1912 in ''The Perplexed Husband'', and continued to act in New York and elsewhere in the United States. He portrayed John Hammond in the 1918 silent film ''My Wife''.
Druce continued to write while he was an actor. His novel, ''Henry Cassland'', was widely circulated in England. By the fall of 1928, he had written five plays, with all having been accepted for production.<ref name="pi" />
== Personal life and death == Druce was appearing in ''The Admirable Crichton'' in March 1931 when he became ill. He died of pneumonia in Post-Graduate Hospital in New York on April 6, 1931, survived by his wife and two children.<ref name="nytobit">(7 April 1931). [https://www.nytimes.com/1931/04/07/archives/hubert-druce-dead-was-english-actor-player-on-american-and-foreign.html Hubert Druce Dead; Was English Actor], ''The New York Times''</ref><ref name="brook">(6 April 1931). [https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/57551852/?terms=hubert%20druce&match=1 Hubert Druce, 61, English Producer And Player, Dead], ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle''</ref> He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral of Hubert Druce: 100 Members of Theatrical and Film Circles Mourn Actor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/04/10/archives/funeral-of-hubert-druce-100-members-of-theatrical-and-film-circles.html |access-date=April 29, 2026 |work=The New York Times |date=April 10, 1931 |page=24 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Actress Edith Ogilby Berg was previously married to Druce; they divorced in 1905.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IBDB name|14654}} *{{IMDb name|238455}}
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