Sir Philip Barling Greet, known professionally as Ben Greet, was a British Shakespearean actor, director, impresario and actor-manager.
Ben Greet as "Boomblehart", from W. S. Gilbert's Creatures of Impulse, circa 1910
The Ben Greet Players at the White House (1911)
Advertisement in the Daily Illini for the Ben Greet Players
Image: Ben Greet 1911
William Greet was a British theatre manager from the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. Originally a business manager for other theatre licensees in the 1880s, he branched out as an independent manager in the 1890s and was associated with various London theatres, principally the Lyric, the Savoy and the Adelphi Theatres.
William Greet in The Sketch (1894)
Poster from The Emerald Isle