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Born c.1580
Died c.October 15, 1638 • London • England
Sir Squire Bancroft.
Sir Squire Bancroft
British actor and manager
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Frank Benson, 1882
Sir Frank Benson
British actor
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John Rich
British theatrical manager and actor
Laura Keene, lithograph.
Laura Keene
British actress
Talma, lithograph by G. Engelmann
François-Joseph Talma
French actor and theatrical manager
John Philip Kemble
John Philip Kemble
British actor
Charles Mathews, detail from a mezzotint by C. Turner, 1825, after an oil painting by James Lonsdale
Charles Mathews
British actor
Detail of portrait of Charles Dibdin, oil on canvas, by Thomas Phillips, 1799; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Dibdin
British composer, author, actor and manager
James William Wallack, detail from an engraving by Thomas A. Woolnoth, 1807.
James William Wallack
American actor
Charles Kemble as Romeo, engraving by P. Thomson, c. 1819
Charles Kemble
British actor
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Roger Kemble
British actor
Ames, Winthrop
Winthrop Ames
American theatrical producer and director
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Konrad Ernst Ackermann
German actor and manager
Jouvet
Louis Jouvet
French actor and director
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H.L. Bateman
American actor
André Antoine
André Antoine
French actor
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Friedrich Ludwig Schröder
German actor and theatrical manager
Walter Hampden, c. 1919.
Walter Hampden
American actor
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Thomas Sheridan
Irish actor

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