Huntley Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, best known for creating roles in many important Edwardian musical comedies.
Huntley Wright circa 1908
1885 advertisement for the Wright family company, listing Wright under his early stage name Walter Huntley
as Heliodorus in A Greek Slave
as Li in San Toy
Edwardian musical comedy was a form of British musical theatre that extended beyond the reign of King Edward VII in both directions, beginning in the early 1890s, when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas' dominance had ended, until the rise of the American musicals by Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin and Cole Porter following the First World War.
The Geisha was a popular Edwardian musical comedy
George Edwardes
Phyllis Dare in The Arcadians
Souvenir program cover, 1900