Brandon Thomas (playwright)
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Walter Brandon Thomas was an English actor, playwright and songwriter, best known as the author of the farce Charley's Aunt.
Brandon Thomas in 1901
Thomas the playwright depicted at work
Thomas (l) as John of Gaunt, with Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Richard II
Thomas's gravestone, Brompton Cemetery
Weedon Grossmith
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Walter Weedon Grossmith was an English writer, actor, painter and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody with his brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star George
Brandon Thomas (playwright)
…at Terry's Theatre. At the instigation of George Edwardes, he invested £1,000 in a production of three one-act plays: his own The Lancashire Sailor, Weedon Grossmith's A Commission, and Cecil Clay's A Pantomime Rehearsal. He took prominent roles in all three, displaying his versatility as "a romantic young lover, a…
Weedon Grossmith, c. 1904
Grossmith (l) in Mr. Preedy and the Countess, 1905
Iris Hoey, Lilias Waldegrave and Grossmith in Baby Mine (1911)
Grossmith in Vanity Fair: The Duffer, by Spy (1905)