
Family tree of William A. WELLMAN
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Born William Augustus WELLMAN
American film director
Born on February 29, 1896 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA , United States
Died on December 19, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA
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Wellman was expelled from Newton High School in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, for dropping a stink bomb on the principal's head. Ironically, his mother was a probation officer who was asked to address Congress on the subject of juvenile delinquency. Wellman worked as a salesman and then at a lumber yard, before ending up playing professional ice hockey, which is where he was first seen by Douglas Fairbanks, who suggested that with Wellman's good looks he could become a film actor.
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