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Norman Hughes Chaplen Whitten (20 October 1881 β 3 March 1969) was an English silent film producer, director and actor and the first actor to play the Mad Hatter in film, which he did in the 1903 film Alice in Wonderland, the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In 1907 he married May Clark, who had played Alice. A pioneer of early film in Ireland, Whitten made newsreels, light comedies and dramas and Ireland's first animated film.
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Birthday1881-01-01
Deathday1969-01-01 (87 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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