Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor and theatre manager.
Tree, as depicted in the pages of Vanity Fair (1890)
Tree as Hamlet in 1892.
Macbeth (1916)
Tree as Shylock, painted by Charles Buchel.
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 is a method of theatrical production used consistently since the 16th century, particularly common in 19th-century Britain and the United States.
Actor-manager Henry Irving
Henry Irving in The Bells, 1874