{{Short description|British actor (1881–1936)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Hugh Buckler | image = Getting-Married-Theatre-Guild.jpg | image_size = | caption = Hugh Buckler standing, from the Broadway play ''Getting Married'' (1931) | birth_date = 9 September 1881 | birth_place = Southampton, Hampshire, UK | death_date = 30 October 1936 (aged 55) | death_place = Malibou Lake, California, U.S. | occupation = Film actor | years_active = 1919–1936 | spouse = Violet Buckler (1905–1936)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1936/09/06/page/7/article/hugh-buckler-actor-sued-for-divorce-wed-31-years|title = Chicago Tribune – Historical Newspapers}}</ref> | children = John Buckler}}
'''Hugh Chilman Buckler''' (9 September 1881 – 30 October 1936) was a British actor.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9faacb26 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714184551/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9faacb26 | url-status=dead | archive-date=14 July 2019 | title=Hugh Buckler | publisher=British Film Institute| access-date=12 December 2018 }}</ref> He was married to stage actress Violet Paget,<!--please leave as redlink to distinguish her from the noted writer of the same name--><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5230218 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Advertiser |volume=LII |issue=16,009 |location=South Australia |date=7 February 1910 |access-date=22 September 2021 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> about whom little has been found, save that she was somehow related to the Marquess of Anglesey.<ref name=Age1910/> The film actor John Buckler was their son.
==History== thumb|Buckler family 1914 In 1909 Buckler and Paget were in England, with George Willoughby's Farcical Comedy Company, touring Weedon Grossmith's ''The Night of the Party'', which production was brought out to Australia by Rupert Clarke and Clyde Meynell, opening at the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne on 26 February 1910.<ref name=Age1910>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196074961 |title=About People |newspaper=The Age |issue=17,127 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=4 February 1910 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Buckler and Paget founded Sydney's Little Theatre in 1913.
Their eight-year-old son John, or Jack, had been living in England while his parents were touring, and joined his parents sometime around August 1914. In the first few months that Jack was in Sydney and Brisbane his talent for acting became evident.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article178850908 |title=Miss Violet Paget |newspaper=The Daily Standard (Brisbane) |issue=600 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=17 November 1914 |access-date=27 June 2022 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Buckler, who was a reserve officer with the Royal Irish Rifles,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article176153685 |title=Called to the Colours |newspaper=The Telegraph (Brisbane) |issue=13,145 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=7 January 1915 |access-date=18 October 2021 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> volunteered for service with the outbreak of war, and received a commission with his old regiment<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article212163162 |title=Society Gossip |newspaper=The Critic (Adelaide) |volume=XVI |issue=928 |location=South Australia |date=24 November 1915 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> leaving Melbourne by the R.M.S. ''Maloja'' on 12 January 1915, and saw some fighting with the 4th Battalion, Worcester Regiment. A rumor that he had a leg amputated below the knee<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137097559 |title=An Idle Woman's Diary |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |issue=12,916 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=24 March 1916 |access-date=18 October 2021 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and another, that he was killed in action,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120292227 |title=Hugh Buckler Killed in Action |newspaper=The Referee |issue=1616 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 December 1917 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> were without foundation but he was wounded and his wife and son left for Egypt, where he had been hospitalized, in November 1915.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177964278 |title=Gossip from Sydney |newspaper=The Telegraph (Brisbane) |issue=13410 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=13 November 1915 |accessdate=26 June 2022 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In London in 1919 he founded a "Bohemian" club, the "Junior Savage" (perhaps a reference to the Savage Club) in a spacious loft over 5–6 Market Street, off Jermyn Street, Piccadilly.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15874688 |title=Music and Drama |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=25,589 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 January 1920 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In March 1923, while playing ''Decameron Nights'' at Drury Lane Theatre, he was charged with passing a cheque while bankrupt, but acquitted.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37298618 |title=An Actor's Cheque |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=9 March 1923 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> A year later Buckler and Paget were in America, with Henry Jewett's repertory company in Boston.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244843710 |title=Player's Gossip |newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne) |issue=14,814 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 November 1924 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Little has been found on Paget's time in America, apart from an incident in 1926, when Buckler was in New York, playing in ''The Ladder'', and his wife was suffering from "a bad attack of blood poisoning".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article180613130 |title=Music and Drama |newspaper=The Telegraph (Brisbane) |issue=16874 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=1 January 1927 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In 1931 he has in New York, playing Antonio in ''The Merchant of Venice'' to Maurice Moscovitch's Shylock.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16744737 |title=Music and Drama |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=29,022 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 January 1931 |accessdate=26 June 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In 1936 he visited his actor son John Buckler in Hollywood and the same week was signed for the part of Gainsford in ''Lost Horizon''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244740419 |title=Hugh Buckler Signed Up |newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne) |issue=18,419 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=28 May 1936 |access-date=26 June 2022 |page=46 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Father and son died together when their car left the road and plunged into Malibou Lake.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41771972 |title=Actors Drowned |newspaper=The Cairns Post |issue=10,881 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=24 December 1936 |access-date=22 September 2021 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''The Garden of Resurrection'' (1919) * ''The Lure of Crooning Water'' (1920) * ''Duke's Son'' (1920) * ''The Place of Honour'' (1921) * ''The Nonentity'' (1921) * ''Belonging'' (1922) * ''Guy Fawkes'' (1923) * ''Carry on, Sergeant!'' (1928) * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1936) * ''The Jungle Princess'' (1936) * ''Crash Donovan'' (1936) * ''Lost Horizon'' (1937)
==Gallery== <gallery> Image:Hugh Buckler.png|Hugh Buckler 1912 Image:Violet Paget (actor).png|Violet Paget 1912 </gallery>
==References== <references/>
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0118551}} *{{IBDB name}} *[https://www.greatwartheatre.org.uk/db/person/1475/ Hugh Buckler on Great War Theatre]
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