Lionel Brough
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Lionel "Lal" Brough was a British actor and comedian. After beginning a journalistic career and performing as an amateur, he became a professional actor, performing mostly in Liverpool during the mid-
Lionel Brough
Edward Saker and Brough in Box and Cox
1884 caricatures of Brough
Brough caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1905
J. L. Toole
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John Lawrence Toole was an English comic actor, actor-manager and theatrical producer. He was famous for his roles in farce and in serio-comic melodramas, in a career that spanned more than four decad
Lionel Brough
…in Liverpool until 1867. In 1867, he joined the London company that opened the new Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, with Charles Wyndham, Henry Irving, J. L. Toole, Ellen Terry and Henrietta Hodson, in a production of Charles Reade's The Double Marriage. The Times wrote of him, "Mr Lionel Brough, an accession from…
John L.Toole
Spy cartoon of Toole titled "A Spelling Bee" (1876)
Toole in The Butler at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Toole in the title role in The Don (1888)