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George W. Anson

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George W. Anson (25 November 1847 – 2 August 1920) was a British actor. [1]

55 relations: Albert Edward Anson, Alfred Sutro, Burlesque, Caste (play), Character actor, Charles Dickens, Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1858), Criterion Theatre (Sydney), Desire (1920 film), Dion Boucicault, Dundee, F. C. Burnand, Falstaff, George Irving (American actor), Hamlet, Helena Modjeska, Henry Irving, Henry James Byron, Her Majesty's Theatre, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Honoré de Balzac, Inverness, J. Comyns Carr, John Brougham, John W. Anson, Julius Caesar (play), Lyceum Theatre (Broadway), Lyceum Theatre, London, Montrose, Angus, Much Ado About Nothing, Niblo's Garden, Olympia Theatre (New York City), Olympic Theatre, Oscar Hammerstein I, Perth, Scotland, Quintus Ligarius, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Royal Court Theatre, Samuel Johnson (comedian), Scotland, The Barton Mystery (play), The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The School for Scandal, The Sydney Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Ticket-of-Leave Man (play), Theatre Royal Haymarket, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, ..., Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Thomas William Robertson, Tom Taylor, Toronto, Walter C. Hackett. Expand index (5 more) »

Albert Edward Anson

Albert Edward Anson (14 September 1879 – 25 June 1936) was a British stage and screen actor.

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Alfred Sutro

Alfred Sutro OBE (7 August 1863 – 11 September 1933) was an English author, dramatist and translator.

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Burlesque

A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.

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Caste (play)

Caste is a comedy drama by Thomas William Robertson, first seen in 1867.

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Character actor

A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1858)

Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey (21 September 1858 – 30 July 1923) was an English actor, director, producer and manager.

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Criterion Theatre (Sydney)

The Criterion Theatre for a former theatre in Sydney, Australia which was built in 1886 by architect George R Johnson on the south east corner of Pitt and Park streets.

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Desire (1920 film)

Desire is a 1920 British silent fantasy film directed by George Edwardes-Hall and starring Dennis Neilson-Terry, Yvonne Arnaud and Christine Maitland.

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Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 (or 1822) – 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault (Dee-on Boo-se-koh), was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dùn Dè) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.

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F. C. Burnand

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box.

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Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who is mentioned in four plays by William Shakespeare and appears on stage in three of them.

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George Irving (American actor)

George Henry Irving (October 5, 1874 – September 11, 1961) was an American film actor and director.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Helena Modjeska

Helena Modjeska (October 12, 1840 – April 8, 1909), whose actual Polish surname was Modrzejewska, was a renowned actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.

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Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre.

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Henry James Byron

Henry James Byron (8 January 1835 – 11 April 1884) was a prolific English dramatist, as well as an editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor.

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Her Majesty's Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London.

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Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Inverness

Inverness (from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness", Inerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands.

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J. Comyns Carr

Joseph William Comyns Carr (1 March 1849 – 12 December 1916) was an English drama and art critic, gallery director, author, poet, playwright and theatre manager.

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John Brougham

John Brougham (9 May 1814 – 7 June 1880) was an Irish-American actor and dramatist.

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John W. Anson

John W. Anson (31 July 1817 – 6 February 1881) was a British actor, noted for his work for the welfare of actors.

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Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.

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Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)

The Lyceum Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 149 West 45th Street near Times Square between Seventh and Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Lyceum Theatre, London

The Lyceum Theatre (pronounced ly-CEE-um) is a 2,100-seat West End theatre located in the City of Westminster, on Wellington Street, just off the Strand.

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Montrose, Angus

Montrose (Monadh Rois) is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.

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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career.

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Niblo's Garden

Niblo's Garden was a New York theatre on Broadway, near Prince Street.

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Olympia Theatre (New York City)

The Olympia Theatre (1514-16 Broadway at 44th Street), also known as Hammerstein's Olympia, was a theatre complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I in Longacre Square (later Times Square), New York City, opening in 1895.

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Olympic Theatre

The Olympic Theatre, sometimes known as the Royal Olympic Theatre, was a 19th century London theatre, opened in 1806 and located at the junction of Drury Lane, Wych Street and Newcastle Street.

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Oscar Hammerstein I

Oscar Hammerstein I (8 May 18461 August 1919) was a German-born businessman, theater impresario, and composer in New York City.

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Perth, Scotland

Perth (Peairt) is a city in central Scotland, located on the banks of the River Tay.

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Quintus Ligarius

Quintus Ligarius (1st century BC) was a Roman soldier who was one of the members of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Samuel Johnson (comedian)

Samuel Johnson (1830–15 February 1900) was an actor-manager and Shakespearean actor of the 19th century and a member of Henry Irving's Company at the Lyceum Theatre, for which he played the comedy roles.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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The Barton Mystery (play)

The Barton Mystery is a 1916 play by the Anglo-American writer Walter C. Hackett.

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.

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The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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The Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail was an Australian magazine published weekly in Sydney.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Ticket-of-Leave Man (play)

The Ticket-of-Leave Man is an 1863 stage melodrama in four acts by the British writer Tom Taylor, based on a French drama, Le Retour de Melun.

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Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.

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Theatre Royal, Edinburgh

Four theatre buildings in Edinburgh have borne the name Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, though the final three were all rebuildings of the second.

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Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated (originally the National Phonograph Company) was the main holding company for the various manufacturing companies established by the inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison.

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Thomas William Robertson

Thomas William Robertson (9 January 1829 – 3 February 1871), usually known professionally as T. W. Robertson, was an English dramatist and innovative stage director best known for a series of realistic or naturalistic plays produced in London in the 1860s that broke new ground and inspired playwrights such as W.S. Gilbert and George Bernard Shaw.

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Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor (19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880) was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of ''Punch'' magazine.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Walter C. Hackett

Walter C. Hackett (November 10, 1876 – January 20, 1944) was an American-British playwright.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Anson

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