Actor-manager
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An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the business, sometimes taking over a theatre to perform select plays in which they usually star. It
Actor-manager Henry Irving
Henry Irving in The Bells, 1874
Henry Irving
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Sir Henry Irving was an English actor-manager in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He established himself at the West End theatre the Lyceum. His long campaign to have theatre recognised as an art of
Actor-manager
…actor-management generally produced high standards of performance, as demonstrated by such 19th-century actors as William Macready, Charles Wyndham, Henry Irving, Frank Benson and Herbert Beerbohm Tree, by husband-wife teams such as Squire Bancroft and Effie Bancroft, Frank Wyatt and Violet Melnotte, William…
Irving c. 1878
Irving's birthplace, Keinton Mandeville, Somerset
Irving as Hamlet, 1864
As the haunted murderer Mathias in The Bells, 1872