Walter Passmore
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Walter Henry Passmore was an English singer and actor best known as the first successor to George Grossmith in the comic baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Compa
Passmore in 1901
Rudolph, The Grand Duke
Mr Wells, The Sorcerer
Sir Joseph, H.M.S. Pinafore
The Chieftain
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The Chieftain is a two-act comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand based on their 1867 opera, The Contrabandista. It consists of substantially the same first act as the 1867 work with a compl
Walter Passmore
…also performed in Utopia in the role of King Paramount on tour that year. He next created the role of Peter Adolphus Grigg in Sullivan and Burnand's The Chieftain (1894–1895). After this, he toured as Bobinet and Grigg. Passmore returned to the Savoy in 1895, where he continued as D'Oyly Carte's principal comedian…
Poster showing Scott Fishe as Ferdinand de Roxas
Perry and Passmore
Sullivan and Burnand caricatured in Punch at the time of the premiere
Grigg installed as chieftain