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Also Known As Sir Frank Robert Benson
Born November 4, 1858 • England
Died December 31, 1939 (aged 81) • London • England

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Frank Benson, 1882
Frank Benson in Timon of Athens
Sir Frank Benson as Henry V in ornate armor, gazing upward and holding a sword, in a 1900 stage production of Shakespeare's Henry V.
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Sir Squire Bancroft
British actor and manager
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John Rich
British theatrical manager and actor
Talma, lithograph by G. Engelmann
François-Joseph Talma
French actor and theatrical manager
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
John Philip Kemble
John Philip Kemble
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Christopher Beeston
English actor and theatrical 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
Edward Gordon Craig, 1890.
Edward Gordon Craig
British actor and director
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, writer, and humanitarian
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Tony Richardson stands indoors, leaning with one arm on a surface, wearing a sweater over a collared shirt, looking directly at the camera in this 1977 black-and-white portrait.
Tony Richardson
British director and producer
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
British actor and director
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Peter Hall
English theatrical manager and director
Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
British actor and manager
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
Laura Keene, lithograph.
Laura Keene
British actress
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Winthrop Ames
American theatrical producer and director
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Louis Jouvet
French actor and director

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