Wallace Eddinger

{{short description|American actor}}

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{{infobox person

| name = Wallace Eddinger

| image =Wallace Eddinger, Theatre Magazine 1920.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption =Eddinger c. 1920

| birth_name =

| birth_date = July 14, 1881/or 1883

| birth_place = Albany, New York

| death_date = {{death-date and age|January 8, 1929|July 14, 1881}}

| death_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

| restingplace = Amityville Cemetery, Suffolk County New Yorksee findagrave

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1888-1928

| spouse = Ivy Lee Callender
Margaret Lawrence

| children =

}}

Wallace Eddinger (July 14, 1881/1883[http://findagrave.com/memorial/26608698/wallace-Eddinger Wallace Eddinger; findagrave] – January 8, 1929) was an American stage actor. He started as a child actor, known as Wally Eddinger. As a child he played Cedric in Little Lord Fauntleroy which starred female child sensation Elsie Leslie.Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976 compiled from John Parker's original annual volumes; 1976 edition by Gale Research

Eddinger appeared in only two silent films, The Great Diamond Robbery and A Gentleman of Leisure, in 1914 and 1915 respectively, preferring the stage. The latter film still survives.

Eddinger was born to actors Lawrence Eddinger (1855-1928) and May (née Williams) (1858-1944) and had an older sister Lorle Eddinger (1879-1969).[http://www.jenningstree.com/p176.htm Jennings Genealogy; Lawrence Eddinger Retrieved August 31, 2017] He was married twice, first to Ivy Lee Moore-La Grove from 1912 to 1920, and second to popular stage actress Margaret Lawrence (1889-1929) from 1924 until his death. Lawrence had been previously married to a publisher named Orson Munn, with whom she had two daughters. Six months after Eddinger's death, Margaret Lawrence was murdered in New York City by her lover, actor Louis Bennison, after a drunken lover's quarrel. Bennison then killed himself in what was deemed a murder-suicide.{{Cite web|url=https://mc3betzwood.wordpress.com/actors/louis-bennison/|title=The Smilin' Cowboy: Louis Bennison|date=August 25, 2011}}