Place of Birth: Gladewater, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 21, 1957
Ethnicity:
*Welsh (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, German, Swiss-German (mother)
Michael Bowen is an American actor.
Michael is the son of Sonia (Henius) and Michael Bowen. Michael’s father was a painter and artist. Michael is a half-brother of actor Robert Carradine.
Michael’s maternal grandfather was of half Polish Jewish and half Danish ancestry. Robert’s maternal grandmother was of German and Swiss-German descent.
Michael’s paternal grandparents were Sterling Bowen and Grace. They are both said to have Welsh ancestry.
Michael’s maternal grandfather was Henry Robert Gustav Henius (the son of Max Henius and Johanne Louise Heiberg). Max, a prominent biochemist, was a Danish Jew, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Isidor Henius and Emilie Wasserzug. Johanne was of Danish background, the daughter of Emil Theodor Heiberg and Johanne Henriette Jacoba Schmidt, and the sister of historian/philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg.
Robert’s maternal grandmother was Lillian Dorothy Fuess (the daughter of Joseph Fuess and Anna Fischer). Joseph was German, from Roentgen, Baden, the son of Joseph Fuess and Margertha Hasselhofer. Anna was born in Illinois, to a German father, Joseph Fischer, and a Swiss-German mother, Elizabeth Eggan.
Sources: Robert’s maternal grandmother, Lillian Dorothy Fuess, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Michael’s maternal great-grandparents, Joseph Fuess and Anna Fischer – https://familysearch.org
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