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Also Known As Charles John Kean
Born January 18, 1811 • Waterford • Ireland
Died January 22, 1868 (aged 57) • London • England

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Charles Kean as King Lear
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Sir Henry Irving, c. 1900.
Sir Henry Irving
British actor and theatrical manager
William Charles Macready
English actor
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth, 1911.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
British actor and manager
William Hunter Kendal
British actor and manager
Dame Margaret Kendal
British actress and manager
Edward Gordon Craig, 1890.
Edward Gordon Craig
British actor and director
Colley Cibber
English actor and author
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
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Charles Laughton
English actor
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
British actor and director
John Philip Kemble
John Philip Kemble
British actor
Micheál MacLiammóir
actor, scenic designer, and playwright
Sir Ralph Richardson as Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1, in an Old Vic production
Ralph Richardson
British actor
Anthony Quayle as King Saul in the television movie The Story of David (1976).
Sir Anthony Quayle
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Eva Le Gallienne
American actress
Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard
British actor
George Jolly
English actor and manager
Robert Morley
English actor
James William Wallack, detail from an engraving by Thomas A. Woolnoth, 1807.
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Sir John Hare
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