Alexander Woollcott was born on January 19, 1887 in Phalanx, New Jersey, USA as Alexander Humphreys Woollcott. He was a writer and actor, known for Five Times Five (1939), The Man with Two Faces (1934) and Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin (1998). He died on January 23, 1943 in New York City, New York, USA.