Ben Greet
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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
Ben Greet 1911
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
Ben Greet
…Philip Barling Greet (24 September 1857 – 17 May 1936), known professionally as Ben Greet, was a British Shakespearean actor, director, impresario and actor-manager. The younger son of Captain William Greet RN and his wife, Sarah Barling, Greet was born on board HMS Crocodile, a Royal Navy recruiting ship tied up…
Actor-manager Henry Irving
Henry Irving in The Bells, 1874