Charles Hammond (Australian cricketer)

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{{short description|Australian cricketer and actor (1868–1955)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Charles Hammond

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| fullname = Charles Pitt Hammond

| birth_date = {{birth date|1868|8|31|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|9|25|1868|8|31|df=yes}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California, United States

| batting =

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| role =

| club1 = Tasmania

| year1 = {{nowrap|1898/99–1899/1900}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 2

| runs1 = 24

| bat avg1 = 6.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 22

| deliveries1 = 55

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1= 0/–

| date = 30 September 2024

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5567.html Cricinfo

}}

Charles Pitt Hammond (31 August 1868 – 25 September 1955) was an Australian cricketer and actor. He played two first-class matches for Tasmania in the late 1890s, before moving to the United States.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5567.html |title=Charles Hammond |accessdate=16 January 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}

While working at the Launceston Stock Exchange in the 1890s, Hammond also played cricket and took part in amateur theatrical productions. He was a regular player for the North of Tasmania in the matches against South of Tasmania from 1886 to 1900, and played for Tasmania in the 1898–99 and 1899–1900 seasons.{{cite web |title=Miscellaneous Matches played by Charles Hammond |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2/2541/Miscellaneous_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=30 September 2024}}

In 1901 Hammond moved to the United States, where he made a living as a professional actor, first on the stage in New York, then in Hollywood movies.{{cite web |title=Charles Pitt Hammond |url=http://www.launcestonfamilyalbum.org.au/detail/1030713/charles-pitt-hammond |website=Launceston Family Album |access-date=25 August 2024}}Rick Smith, More to a Life than Cricket, Apple Books, Tasmania, 2023, pp. 101–13. His film parts included prominent roles in Women Men Marry (1922),{{cite journal |title=Princess Theatre |journal=Daily Telegraph |date=6 September 1924 |page=10 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/153690396}} Received Payment (1922){{cite journal |title=His Majesty's Theatre |journal=Mercury |date=14 December 1922 |page=3 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23653334}} and Big Brother (1923).{{cite journal |title=A Unique Occurrence |journal=Daily Telegraph |date=21 June 1924 |page=7 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/153601803}}

Hammond married Josephine Collins of Launceston in Cheltenham, England, in July 1909.{{cite journal |title=Marriages |journal=Daily Telegraph |date=21 September 1909 |page=1 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/152024836}} They had one child, a son, who died in childhood.