Role Collection (page 11)

Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle, an Allied Artists Picture. The film is a 1925 American silent film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Valentino, Vilma Banky

Four Westland Whirlwinds of No. 2 Flying Training School?
Four Westland Whirlwinds of No.2 Flying Training School, RAF Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, make a final flight over their base on 17 December 1980

Amateur theatrical Company presenting a historical review
A (sadly unnamed) Amateur theatrical Company presenting a historical review, operetta or pageant - the characters/roles represented include a medieval jester, an executioner

Miss Maud Allen - Dancer, in the role of Salome
Miss Maud Allen (1873-1956) - pianist-turned-actress, dancer and choreographer, in the role of Salome in her production the Vision of Salome. Date: 1910

Miss Lily Elsie and Mr Robert Evett in The Merry Widow
Miss Lily Elsie (1886-1962) popular Edwardian Actress in the role of Sonia and Mr Robert Evett (1874-1949) English singer, actor

Comment on Womens Fashion for wearing trousers / culottes
German Comment on Womens Fashion for wearing trouser suits / culottes - " You are in here if you are wearing trousers

Miss Fanny Brough - French-born British Stage Actress
Miss Fanny Brough (1852-1914) - Paris-born British Stage Actress. She created the title role in G B Shaws Mrs Warrens Profession (1902). Date: circa 1902

Lewis Waller - English actor-manager in role of Robin Hood
Lewis Waller (William Waller Lewis) (1860-1915) - English actor-manager in the role of Robin Hood. Date: circa 1909

Miss Ellaline Terriss as Cinderella
Miss Ellaline Terriss (1872-1971) - popular English actress and singer, as Cinderella - promotional card for Ivelcon Date: circa 1909

Faust by W. G. Wills - Henry Irving as Mephistopheles
Faust by W. G. Wills (a free adaptation of Goethes version). First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 19th December 1885

Jean-Gaspard Deburau, mime artist, as Pierrot
Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796-1846), Bohemian-French mime artist, in his famous character of Pierrot. Or possibly his son Jean-Charles Deburau (1829-1873)

Shaving the Master
The Edwardian butler (Mr. Edgar), in his role as valet, gives the Master of the house (Sir John Olliff-Cooper) his morning shave, using a cut- throat razor. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Carry On - Women in wartime silhouette, WW1
Types of Britains women armies - Land lasses, Town toilers and Sea Sirens. Three types of women during the First World War depicted rather romantically in silhouette

Rula Lenska filming Robin of Sherwood, Cornwall
Rula Lenska in the character of Morgwyn of Ravenscar, filming the TV series Robin of Sherwood near St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Date: 1980s

Nanette Newman and Michael Culver on location in Cornwall
The actress Nanette Newman on location near Lands End, Cornwall, with the actor Michael Culver, in the roles of the Newlyn School artists Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947)

Maude Fealy, actress, in the role of a nun
Maude Fealy (Maude Mary Hawk, 1883-1971), American stage and film actress, seen here in the role of a nun. Date: early 20th century

Japan - Young Japanese Girl holding cherry blossom frond Date: circa 1903

Japan - Geisha Girl - studio pose holding fan behind her head. Date: circa 1906

Miss Maud Allan as Salome
Miss Maud Allan (1873-1956) actress, dancer and choreographer in the role of Salome - performing at the Varietes, Paris. She designed and often sewed her own costumes, which were creative

Pierrot and Harlequin, by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760). A scene from the Commedia dell Arte, in which Pierrot and Harlequin protect the honour of the doctors daughter

In the famous Plug Street Wood. A relief party marching along Regent Street. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

The War Baby published in The Sphere, No. 2071 on the 30th September 1939. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time

Wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital ward
A wounded French soldier lying in bed in a hospital ward that was originally a school. He is being visited by an elegant lady who is seated beside the bed.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

With the British Officer in the Ypres Salient. Afternoon tea in a ruined farmstead. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

An actor in the role of Saitogo Kunitake : An actor in the role of Tadanokurando Yukitsuna : An actor in the role of Narutonomae : An actor in the role of Akugenta Yoshihra. Date 1847 or 1848

An actor in the role of Kurando Yukinaga : Two actors in the roles of Saitogo Kunitake and a female Buddhist devotee : An actor in the role of Osadanotaro Nagamune

Constance Bennett in The Common Law
Constance Bennett (1904 - 1965), American actress in the role of an artists model in the film The Common Law". According to the editorial she had to pose

Lady Godiva, Coventry
Miss Frances P. Burchell in the role of Lady Godiva at the Coventry Hospital Pageant - 27th June 1936 1936

Robert Taber / Celebrities
ROBERT TABER English actor in the role of Macduff

Man trussed up on a Christmas and New Year card
Man trussed up in front of a fire by a joint of meat, two turkeys and a pudding on a Christmas and New Year card -- One Good Turn Deserves Another. Date: circa 1890s

Nanette Newman and Michael Culver filming in Cornwall
The actress Nanette Newman on location near Lands End, Cornwall, with the actor Michael Culver, in the roles of the Newlyn School artists Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947)

The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, starring Henry Irving
The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, first produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, November 1871. Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) was identified with the role of Mathias in this play more than with any other

Cartoon, Edward Compton, performer
Cartoon, Edward Compton, as Charles Goldfinch, in The Road to Ruin. 1884

Miss Lily Elsie in The Merrie Widow
Miss Lily Elsie (1886-1962), English Actress and Singer - seen here in The Merrie Widow, the play by Victor Leon and Leo Stein with music by Franz Lehar

Matania as consultant on the film, Susie in the Bath
The Italian-born artist, Fortunino Matania, leading illustrator for The Sphere magazine, pictured giving professional hints to actor Gene Gerrard on the set of the new John Stafford film

Italian Silent Film Actress Edy Darclea as Helen of Troy
Italian Silent Film Actress Edy Darclea (1895-?) as Helen of Troy in Helena (1924). Date: 1924

Caricature of Charles Lauri, pantomime performer
Caricature of Charles Lauri Junior -- The Drury Lane Poodle. He was a pantomime performer who specialised in animal roles

Caricature, Oscar Wilde as Romeo
Caricature, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in the role of Romeo -- an American newspaper had recently reported that this was about to happen. 1883

Caricature of the actor Alfred Maltby, in the role of Mr Dawson in the play Betsy by F C Burnand. circa 1880s

Mary Garden (1874 - 1967), American operatic soprano, born in Scotland, seen here in the role of Massenets Manon

Sir Laurence Olivier aged 15 playing Kate in Taming of Shrew
Sir Laurence Olivier in his first leading Shakespearian role - Katharine in Taming of the Shrew at All Saints Choir School, Margaret Street, London and Stratford-on-Avon in April 1922

Blackburn Botha - designed as a torpedo bomber, the Bothas dismal performance led to it being relegated to the training role

WW1 - WaCS (Air Force Auxiliaries) - No. 2 RFC Cadet Wing
WW1 - A slightly patronisingly-captioned set of images of WaCS (Air Force Auxiliaries) of No.2 Royal Flying Corp (RFC) Cadet Wing. Date: 1917

Dacia the dancer (Miss D. Allwood)
Miss D. Allwood, aka the dancer Dacia, well-known for her role in the popular wartime musical, Chu Chin Chow. Appearing in The Tatler at the time her engagement to Colonel Critchley Salmonson of

Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of Edmund Gurney in the role of Alfred Doolittle in the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion, which opened in London at His Majestys Theatre on 11 April 1914. Date: 1914

Training female dentists at the National Dental Hospital, WW1
Women at the National Dental Hospital and college in Great Portland Street being taught in the conservation room how to stop and fill decayed teeth

Women welders at work, WW1
Women welders at work on pieces of metal at a school opened at Notting Hill Gate by the Womens Service Branch of the London Society for Womens Suffrage during the First World War

WW2 Poster -- ATS Carry The Messages
ATS Carry The Messages. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph by Beverley Pick, published by HMSO. Date: 1940

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