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Born March 3, 1878 • Russia
Died October 30, 1945 (aged 67) • Los Angeles • California
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
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Michel Saint-Denis
French director
Ames, Winthrop
Winthrop Ames
American theatrical producer and director
Talma, lithograph by G. Engelmann
François-Joseph Talma
French actor and theatrical manager
Tairov
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Tairov
Russian director
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Louis Jouvet
French actor and director
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Xiong Foxi
Chinese playwright
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Georges Pitoëff
director and producer
Sir Squire Bancroft.
Sir Squire Bancroft
British actor and manager
Frank Benson, 1882
Sir Frank Benson
British actor
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John Rich
British theatrical manager and actor
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Harrison Grey Fiske
American playwright, theatrical manager, and journalist
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Neuber, Caroline
Caroline Neuber
German actress and manager
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Emanuel Schikaneder
Bavarian playwright
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Franz Schuch
German actor
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Erwin Piscator
German dramatist
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
George II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen, 1900.
George II
duke of Saxe-Meiningen
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Eduard Devrient
German actor