Riley Hatch

{{short description|American actor}}

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| name = William Riley Hatch

| image = File:Sheltered Daughters (1921) - 7.jpg

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| caption = Warner Baxter, Justine Johnstone and Hatch (right) in Sheltered Daughters, 1921

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| birth_date = September 2, 1862

| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio

| death_date = September 6, 1925 (aged 63)

| death_place = Bay Shore, New York

| nationality = American

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| occupation = Actor
Singer

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William Riley Hatch (September 2, 1862 – September 6, 1925) was an American singer and actor on stage and in silent films.{{cite book|last1=Katchmer|first1=George A.|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses|date=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476609058|page=156|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Riley+Hatch%22&pg=PA156|access-date=24 April 2018|language=en}}

Hatch's Broadway debut came in The Burgomaster (1900); his final Broadway appearance was in The Nervous Wreck (1923).{{cite web|title=Riley Hatch|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/riley-hatch-44491|website=Internet Broadway Database|publisher=The Broadway League|access-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424010451/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/riley-hatch-44491|archive-date=24 April 2018}}

He appeared in films such as At Shiloh (1913), The City (1916), A Case at Law (1917),{{cite book|last=Langman|first=Larry|title=A Guide to Silent Westerns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC&pg=PA74|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27858-7|page=74}} The Law of the Land (1917), Eve's Daughter (1918), Sheltered Daughters (1921), and Zaza (1923).

On September 6, 1925, Hatch died of heart disease at his home on Long Island.{{cite news |title=Wm. Riley Hatch dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/07/archives/la-russell-dies-in-doctors-office-orchestral-conductor-and-composer.html |access-date=December 25, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=September 7, 1925 |page=11|url-access=subscription}}