thumb|Portrait by [[Charles Robert Leslie, 1830s]]

James William Wallack (c. 1794–1864), commonly referred to as J. W. Wallack, was an Anglo-American actor and manager, born in London, and brother of Henry John Wallack.

Life

thumb|upright|Lester Wallack (left) and James W. Wallack. The boy is Charles E. Wallack, Lester's son and James's grandson. Photo by [[George G. Rockwood|Rockwood.]]

Wallack's father was named William Wallack and his sister was named Elizabeth. Together, the Wallacks had four sons.

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Further reading

  • Ireland, Joseph N. Records of the New York Stage from 1750 to 1860, volume i. (T. H. Morrell, New York, 1867), pp. 341f and 396f.
  • "James W. Wallack," Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Vol. 3 No. 22 (27 November 1852) p. 344
  • Knight, John Joseph "Wallack, James William" in Lee, Sidney (ed.) Dictionary of National Biography volume lix (London: Smith, Elder, & Co.; 1899) p. 117f. Also online at Internet Archive.
  • A Sketch of the Life of James William Wallack: (senior,) Late Actor and Manager [compiled by the publisher] (T. H. Morrell, New York, 1865) described in Bibliotheca dramatica et curiosa, p. 362
  • Wallack, Lester and Hutton, Laurence Memories of Fifty Years. (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889)
  • Winter, William, The Wallet of Time, volume i. (Moffat, Yard and Company, New York, 1913)
  • Theater Arts Manuscripts: An Inventory of the Collection at the Harry Ransom Center