biography
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Irving, Sir Henry
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originally John Henry Brodribb
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| lived:
| (1838–1905)
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| biography:
| Actor and theatre manager, born in Keinton-Mandeville, Somerset, SW England, UK. He went on stage in 1865, appeared in Sunderland, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Liverpool, and in 1866 made his London debut at the St James's Theatre. He transferred to the Lyceum (1871), where he achieved fame overnight with his appearance in The Bells, a melodrama adapted from Erckmann Chatrian's Le Juif polonais, and gained a reputation as the greatest English actor of his time. In 1878 he began a theatrical partnership with Ellen Terry which lasted until 1902. He became the first actor to receive a knighthood (1895). |
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