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Maude Adams b. 1872 d. 1953 IBDB Biography Link: darkchilde
1 as Peter Pan
2 portrait
3 portrait
4 portrait

Edwin Adams b. 1834 d. 1877 Biography Link: Virtualology.com
1* portrait

Mrs. J.H. Allen d. 1911
1 * portrait
2 * portrait

Mary Anderson b.1859 d. 1940 Biography Link: A Glimpse of Theater History
1 * portrait
2 * as Galatea in Pygmalion and Galatea
3 *
4 *
5 * as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
6 * portrait
7 * portrait
8 *
9 * portrait

John Lewis Baker Debuted at Philadelphia's Arch Street Theatre in 1849; leased the National Theatre of Cincinnati
in 1857;
1 * portrait

Helen Bancroft IBDB Link
1 * portrait

Frank C. Bangs     b. 1833 d. 1908
1 portrait
2
3 as Mark Antony in Julius Ceasar
4 "    "          "       "       "         "
5 "    "          "       "       "         "

Lawrence Barrett b. 1838 d. 1891 IBDB Link Biography Link: Virtualology.com
1 as Lanciotto in Francesca da Rimini
2 as Cassius in Julius Ceasar
4 portrait
5 * as Cassius in Julius Ceasar
6 * as Cassius in Julius Ceasar
7 * as Lanciotto in Francesca da Rimini
8
9 * portrait
10 as Cassius in Julius Ceasar

Viola Crocker Barrett d. 1869 IBDB Debuted as Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream in 1855 at the Walnut
Street Theatre in Philadelphia;
1 * portrait

Wilson Barrett b. 1846 d. 1904 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 *
2

Maurice Barrymore b. 1847 d. 1905 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 with Charles Harris in Alabama
2 in Alabama

Kathryn "Kate"? Bartlett IBDB link
1 * portrait

Kate Bateman b. 1843 d. 1917 IBDB Link Biography Link: Virtualology.com
1 as Leah in Leah the Forsaken
2 " " " " " "
3
4
5 *

Blanche Bates b. 1873 d. 1941 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 portrait
2 in The Girl of the Golden West, 1905

David Belasco b. 1853 d. 1931 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 portrait

Harold Kyrle Bellew b. 1857 d. 1911 IBDB Link Biography Link: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
1 * portrait
2 *
3 as Orlando in As You Like It
4 as Antony in Julius Ceasar
5 in Romeo and Juliet
6 in Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

Sarah Bernhardt b.1845 d. 1925 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 as the Duc De Reichstadt in L'Aiglon by Rostand
2
3
4
5 as Theodora
6
7 as Salome
8
9
10 as Salome
11
12 NPR audio program Exhibit Celebrates Sarah Bernhardt's 'High Art'

Buffalo Bill (William Cody) b. 1846 d. 1917 Biography Link: Buffalo Bill Historical Center
1 portrait
2 portrait

William Rufus Blake b. 1805 d. 1863 Biography Link: The Canadian Encyclopedia
1 * portrait

Kitty Blanchard IBDB Link
1 as Henriette in The Two Orphans
2 portrait
3 as Henriette in The Two Orphans

Agnes Booth b. 1843 d. 1910 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 * portrait

Edwin Booth     b. 1833 d. 1893     IBDB Link     Biography Link: The Players
1 portrait
2 portrait
3  as Hamlet
4  as Iago
5 * as Hamlet
6  as Richelieu
7  as Hamlet
8  1890 recording from Othello at the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University.    RealPlayer required.

John Wilkes Booth b. 1838 d. 1865 IBDB Link Biography Link: R.J. Norton Biography Link: The National Park Service
1 portrait
2 portrait

Junius Brutus Booth b. 1796 d. 1852 IBDB Link Biography Link: A Glimpse of Theater History
1 portrait

Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. b. 1821 d. 1883 IBDB Link Biography Link: Find a Grave
1 portrait

Aubrey Boucicault b. 1868 d. 1913 IBDB Link
1* portrait

Dion Boucicault b. 1822 d. 1890 IBDB Link Biography Link: A Glimpse of Theater History
1* portrait
2 * portrait

Mrs. D.P. Bowers b. 1830 d. 1895 IBDB Link Biography Link: Virtualology.com
1* as Lady Audley in Lady Audley's Secret
2 * portrait

George Vining Bowers b. 1835 d. 1878 low comedian
1 * portrait

John Brougham b. 1810 d. 1880 IBDB Link Biography Link: Notable Names Database
1 * portrait

Fanny Brown b. 1837 d. ? Debuted as Dora Sunnyside in The Octoroon at The Winter Garden Theatre;
1 portrait

Dan Bryant b. 1833 d. 1875 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 * portrait

McKean Buchanan b. 1823 d. 1872 Biography Link: Virtualology.com
1 * portrait

J. Frank Burke b. 1867 d. 1918 IMBD Link
1 portrait

Ione Burke Began as child actress, long affiliation with Wallack's;
1* portrait
2 as Moya in The Shaughraum
3 " " " " "

Claude Burroughs b. 1849 d. 1876 Debuted in Everybody's Friend in the role of Trap at the Winter Garden in 1866; died in the Brooklyn Theatre fire of 1876;
1 * portrait

William Evans Burton b. 1804 d. 1860 IBDB Link Biography Link: A Glimpse of Theater History
1* portrait

Kate Castleton d. 1891
1

Ada Cavendish b. 1847 d. 1895 Biography Link: Androom Archive
1
2 as Mercy Merrick
3

Georgia Cayvan b. 1858 d. 1906 IBDB Link
1 * portrait

Madame Celine Celeste b. 1814 d. 1882 Biography Link: Classic Encyclopedia
1 * portrait

Frank S. Chanfrau, Frank S. b. 1824 d. 1884 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 * portrait

Mrs. Frank S. Chanfrau     b. 1837 d. 1909          IBDB Link     First theatre appearance at the City Museum of Philadelphia as
                                             Miss Apsley in Willow Copse; joined the Arch Street for two seasons and then
                                             joined the company of the National Theatre in Cincinnati;
1 * portrait
2 * portrait

John Sleeper Clarke b. 1833 d. 1899 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1 * portrait
2 * portrait

Estelle Clayton b. 1867 d. 1917 actress and playwright
1* portrait

Kate Claxton b. 1850 d. 1924 IBDB Link Biography Link: Virtualology.com
1 * portrait
2 portrait
3 with Kitty Blanchard in The Two Orphans
4 as Louise in The Two Orphans

Ada Clifton b. 1835 d. 1891 IBDB Link Biography Link: The Vault at Pfaff's
1 * portrait

Charles F. Coghlan b. 1842 d. 1899 Biography Link: Classic Encyclopedia
1*

Rose Coghlan b. 1853 d.1932 Biography Link: A Glimpse of Theater History
1 * portrait
2 * portrait
3
4
5
6

James W. Collier     b. 1836 d.      First New York appearance at Niblo's Garden in 1859 as Rolando supporting
                                   Charlotte Cushman; toured in support of Maggie Mitchell for several years; Manager of the Union Square
                                  Theatre;
1 * portrait

Benoit Constant Coquelin b. 1841 d. 1909 IBDB Link Biography Link: Wikipedia
1* portrait

Charles Couldock b. 1815 d. 1898 IBDB Link Biography Link: Virtualology.com
1 * portrait

Anna Cruise Cowell b. 1824 d. Irish singer/actress; U.S. debut in 1846 as Rosalind at the National Theatre in New York;
1 * portrait

Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree b. 1847 d. 1924 IBDB Link Biography Link: Nevada County Gold
1
2 * portrait
3
4
5 as Firefly
6
7
8
9
10

William Henry Crane b. 1845 d. 1928 IBDB Link Biography Link at The Life and Times of Joseph Haworth
1* portrait

Charlotte Cushman b. 1816 d. 1876 IBDB Link Biography Link at History of Performance Studies
1 * portrait
2 * as Romeo
3 * portrait
4 * portrait
5 * portrait

Edward Loomis Davenport b. 1815 d. 1877 IBDB Link Biography Link at Virtualology.com
1 * portrait
2* portrait

Fanny Davenport b. 1850 d. 1898 IBDB Link Biography Link at Wikipedia
1 *
2 * as Fedora
3 as Mabel in Pique
4 as Eugenia The Big Bonanza
5 as Mabel in Pique
6 as Eugenia The Big Bonanza
7 as Mabel in Pique
8 in Princess Royal
9 *
10 *

Florence C. Davenport b. 1858
1* portrait

Susan Denin b. 1835 d. 1875
1* as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet

Henry E. Dixey b. 1865 d. 1945 IBDB Link
1* portrait
2 portrait
3 portrait

John Drew b. 1853 d. 1927 IBDB Link Biography Link at Virtualology.com
1

Eleonora Duse b. 1859 d. 1924 IBDB Link Biography Link at Wikipedia
1 portrait
2 as Marguerite in The Lady of the Camellias
3 " " " " " " " "
4

Ada Dyas b. ? d. 1908 IBDB Link Biography Link at Wikipedia
1 * as Claire Folliott in The Shaughraun
2 *