Mace Greenleaf(1872-1912)
- Actor
Mace Greenleaf began as a stage
actor starring and supporting in many popular plays, perhaps his best
known roles was as Herbert, the King's Forrester in 'The Prisoner of
Zenda' in the 1890's and in 1898 played Mr. Hunston in Sir Arthur Wing
Pinero's play 'Trelawny of the Wells' at the Lyceum Theatre in New
York, other Broadway performances was in 'The Pride of Jennico' with
James K. Hackett at the Citerion Theatre in 1900 and played Myrtle
May's lover in 'The Parish Priest'. Over the first decade of the new
century played starring roles in stock companies all over America, he
returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the Prince of Wales in the
romantic musical 'Edmond Burke'. In 1911 he joined the film industry
where he would star in at least 20 drama movies, making his debut in
The Golden Rule (1911) co-starring James Kirkwood at the Reliance Film Co. He is perhaps best known as Dr. Earl Headley in Alice Guy Blache's Falling Leaves (1912) for the Solax Film Co in 1912. His last film before his
sudden death from pneumonia age 38 was in The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912)
with Blanche Cornwall. In 1906 Mace married Lucy Banning in Santa Ana,
California, Lucy came from a very wealthy family they owned Catalina
Island, she left Mace in 1910 for the son of prominent judge, Mace
divorced his beautiful wife on the ground of desertion, Lucy was known
as something of a free spirit and often scandalized 'polite society'
with the number of men in her life.
