Niles Welch

Niles Eugene Welch (29 ga Yuli, 1888 - 21 ga Nuwamba, 1976) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na  kasar Amurka a Broadway, kuma jagora ne a cikin fina-finai masu yawa da ba su da sauti da kuma farkon magana daga farkon shekarun 1910 zuwa 1930.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
Dan asalin Hartford, Connecticut, bayan kammala karatunsa daga Makarantar St. Paul,  Welch ya halarci Yale da Jami'ar Columbia.  Daga baya ya shiga kamfanin hannun jari, kuma daga can ya zagaya Amurka a cikin vaudeville . Fim na farko da ya yi aiki a ciki shine The Stranger in Grey tare da Eastern Vitagraph Studios .

Bayan ya shafe shekaru hudu a kan matakin da ya dace, Welch ya fara aikin allo yana bayyana tare da Kamfanin Fim na Duniya, Universal, Pathé Studios da Hotuna na Goldwyn . Daga cikin ayyukansa na farko sun hada da ayyukan Thomas Ince guda biyu, Matakin fita da Kofin Rayuwa, wanda Miss George Washington ya biyo baya a cikin sauri, tare da Marguerite Clark ; Ƙaunar Marge O'Doone, tare da Pauline Starke ; kuma tare da Grace Darmond a cikin Gulf Tsakanin (1917), fim ɗin fasalin farko da aka samar a cikin nau'in tsiri biyu na Technicolor.  Sana'ar sa ta ci gaba da kyau har zuwa lokacin sauti amma galibi a cikin wasu ayyuka.

Welch ya kasance mai sanar da Columbia's American School of the Air a rediyo na CBS a 1939.  A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, ya yi watsa shirye-shiryen harshe na waje don Muryar Amurka (VOA), ta amfani da kwarewarsa a Faransanci da Jamusanci. Yana da nasa shirin a kan VOA ban da shiga cikin watsa shirye-shiryen yau da kullun a kan watsa shirye-aikacen gajeren lokaci zuwa Turai. A shekara ta 1945, ƙofar da ke gidan wasan VOA a New York ta bugi Welch a goshinsa, wanda ya sa duka retinas biyu su rabu. Ya rasa gani a daya ido kuma yana da hangen nesa a ɗayan ido na shekara guda, bayan haka ya makance gaba ɗaya.

A Broadway, Welch ya nuna David Cornish a cikin The Donovan Affair (1926). 

 Rayuwa da mutuwarsa 
Welch ta auri 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Elaine Baker .  Ya mutu a Laguna Niguel, California, a ranar 21 ga Nuwamba, 1976, yana da shekaru 88.

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