Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893) was an American stage actor and theatrical manager who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Booth's Theatre in New York. [1] He is considered by many to be the greatest American actor of the 19th century.
Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893) came to be the foremost American Shakespearean actor of his day. He founded The Players, a New York City actors' club which continues to the present day. His second wife, Mary McVicker, was an actress. [6] Edwin's grandson Edwin Booth Grossman was a painter of some note.
Edmond Thomas Quinn (December 20, 1868 – September 9, 1929) was an American sculptor and painter. He is best known for his bronze statue of Edwin Booth as Hamlet, which stands at the center of Gramercy Park in New York City.
The Players (often inaccurately called The Players Club) is a private social club founded in New York City by the 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. The club is located in a mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, built in 1847. Booth bought the house in 1888, reserved an upper floor for his residence, and turned the rest into a clubhouse.
Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893), the foremost American tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century. John Wilkes Booth, (1838–1865), an American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Agnes Booth (1843–1910), born Marion Agnes Land Rookes, was an Australian born American actress (married to Junius Brutus Booth Jr.)
Booth's Theatre was a theatre in New York built by actor Edwin Booth. Located on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue , Booth's Theatre opened on February 3, 1869. The theatre featured a grand vestibule with Italian marble floors and a large statue of Edwin Booth's father, the Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth , by the ...
Richard Burton as Edwin Booth in Prince of Players. Edwin "Ned" Booth is the son of the noted thespian Junius Brutus Booth and the older brother of another actor, John Wilkes Booth. Beginning In 1848, as a boy, and into early manhood, he travels with and assists Junius, who is often drunk and seems at times on the brink of madness. Several ...
Asia Frigga Booth was the eighth in the family of ten children born to Junius Brutus Booth and his wife Mary Ann Holmes. Her famous brothers were Junius Brutus Booth Jr., Edwin Thomas Booth, and John Wilkes Booth (who later became the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) .