Role Collection (page 18)

Lord George Bentinck 2
LORD GEORGE BENTINCK Statesman and sportsman, here in sporting role at a racing stables. Date: 1802 - 1848

BLACK ROD / 1873
Sir Augustus William Clifford, Black Rod, the officer responsible for Parliamentary ceremony, with a key role during the state opening of Parliament. Date: 1873

Martin Harvey as Richard III
Martin Harvey (Sir John Martin-Harvey) (1863 1944), English actor-manager in the role of Richard III Date: circa 1910

Actress As Juliet
Miss Phyllis Neilson in the role of Juliet Date: Early twentieth century

Louis Calvert (1859 1923), British stage and early film actor, in the role of Pistol Date: circa 1905

Verdi / Otello / Garcia
Garcia in the role of Otello Date: first performed 1887

Glucks Armide
Mademoiselle Maillard in the role of Armide, an enchantress whose hobby is seducing Crusaders. She adds the hero Renaud to her list of victims, but only by using magic. Date: first performed 1777

Phyllis Neilson-Terry (1892 - 1977), English actress in the role of Lady Teazle in School for Scandal

Lewis Waller as Henry V
Lewis Waller (1860 1915), English actor and theatre manager, in the role of Henry V Date: circa 1904

Margaret Halstan (1879 - 1967), English actress, in the role of Desdemona. Date: 1907

Jean Mounet-Sully / 1892
JEAN MOUNET-SULLY French actor in the role of Oedipus Rex at the Comedie Francaise Date: 1892

Edna May in Renaissance
EDNA MAY (1878 1948), Actress, in the role of a Renaissance heroine (possibly Juliet) Date: 1905

Eva Lavalliere / Rire 1901
EVA LAVALLIERE French actress in the role of Josephine in La Reine Date: 1901

Phyllis Dare (1890 1975), English actress, in the role of Peggy in The Dairy Maids Date: 1900s

Play / Ibsen / Wild Duck
Vildanden in Norwegian. Fru Hennings in her role as Hedrig Kobenhaun. Date: 1884

Oscar Asche
OSCAR ASCHE Actor, in the role of Count Hannibal Date: circa 1905

Tristan - Ludwig Schnorr
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who created the role of Tristan at Munchen, 1865 Date: first performed 1865

Isolde - Malvina Schnorr
Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld, who created the role of Isolde at Munchen, 1865 Date: first performed 1865

Algernon Bertram Mitford
ALGERNON BERTRAM MITFORD Diplomat and orientalist, satirised in his role as Secretary to Her Majestys Office of Works. Date: 1837 - 1916

John Pym / Edwards
JOHN PYM English M.P. who took a leading role in the Parliamentary oppposition to King Charles I Date: 1584 - 1643

Clara Butt / St Paul 1894
Clara Butt, singer, in the role of Orfeo in Glucks Orfeo ed Euridice Date: 1894

Leicester Recalled 1586
Leicester recalled from his role of Governor in the Netherlands, by Elizabeth I. His departure is caricatured. Date: 1586

Elizabeth Inchbald / Gray
ELIZABETH INCHBALD - British actress and writer, seen here in the role of Lady Jane Gray Date: 1753 - 1821

Jean-Baptiste Moliere
JEAN-BAPTISTE MOLIERE French playwright and actor, in the role of Sganarelle, in his own play L Ecole des Maris (1661) (from a painting at the Comedie Francaise) Date: 1622 - 1673

Carrie Moore / Postcard
Carrie Moore, popular actress, rehearsing for her role in The Dairymaid - or did they have real live cows on stage ? Date: 1907

Lilian Braithwaite - English actress
Lilian Braithwaite (1873 - 1948), English actress, primarily of the stage. Date: 1907

La Belle Kerro, Edwardian French Theatre Stage Actress Date: 1906

Evelyn Laye as Cleopatra at Dalys Theatre
English actress Evelyn Laye (1900-1996), pictured in the role of Cleopatra at Dalys Theatre in 1925. Date: 1925

George Grossmith as Gilbert & Sullivans The Mikado
George Grossmith in the role of Gilbert & Sullivans The Mikado, Emperor of Japan. 1885

Stone Pagoda Monument - erected for Taira-no-Kiyomori, Kobe, Japan. Taira-no-Kiyomori was a samurai warrior in medieval Japan

Benoit-Constant Coquelin - French Actor
Benoit-Constant Coquelin (18411909) - French actor. Coquelin is seen here in L Aiglon, a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II. Date: circa 1905

Hermann Vezin as Man O Airlie
Hermann Vezin (1829-1910), American-born Shakespearean actor, seen here in the role of a troubled Scottish poet, James Harebell, in the Man O Airlie by W G Wills. circa 1867

Tito Gobbi as Falstaff on a Christmas card
Tito Gobbi (1913-1984), Italian operatic baritone, in the role of Falstaff (in the opera by Verdi) on a Christmas card. (1 of 2) Date: 1950s

Ian McKellen as Alvin in A Lily in Little India
Ian McKellen (born 1939), British actor, appearing in the role of Alvin in Donald Howarths A Lily in Little India, playing at St. Martins Theatre in January 1966. Date: 1966

Advert for Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner
A house-proud lady vacuums her home with the Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner. Date: 1917

Mikhail Mordkin (1925)
Mikhail Mordkinin the role of the Italian Begger (1925) Date: 1925

Cartoon, Ordinance, WW1
Cartoon, Ordinance. A soldier doing a stack of washing up says his wife is working in a munitions factory making shells. Their roles appear to have reversed! Date: 1915

A Japanese actor plays a female role
A Japanese male actor plays a remale role. It is common in long plays for men to play a variety of different roles. Date: 1932

A Japanese actor dresses
A Japanese male actor prepares to play a female role. It is common in long Japanese plays for the same actors with play many roles. Date: 1932

Girls in Japan being instructed in chanoyu or tea ceremony
Girls in Japan being instructed in chanoyu or the tea ceremony. Knowledge of the behavious involved in this is thought essential for every well-educated Japanese girl. Date: 1932

Julia Neilson - English actress
Julia Neilson (1868-1957), English actress, wife of Fred Terry, best known for her numerous performances as Lady Blakeney in " The Scarlet Pimpernel" and for her roles in many tragedies

Violet Loraine knitting in Round the Map, WWI
Actress Violet Loraine, darning socks in her role in Round the Map at the Alhambra, where she sang a sock darning anthem to music composed by Herman Fink

Decima Moore
Lilian Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg, CBE (11 December 1871 18 February 1964), better known by her stage name Decima Moore, English singer and actress

Women working in Army Remount Depot by Cecil Aldin, WW1
Sketch by Cecil Aldin for his painting of women working at one of the Army Remount Depots under his command in Berkshire during the First World War

Female Army Remount Workers during First World War
A group of women working as stable hands at an Army Remount Depot in Berkshire, overseen by the artist Cecil Aldin who was also a keen huntsman and Remount Officer for the area

Gwen Aldin at Army Remount Depot, WW1
Gwen Aldin, daughter of the artist Cecil Aldin, pictured with one of her charges at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War

An Autumn Renunciation - WW1 fashions
A woman in uniform, possibly the WaC or police, turns down a fashionable frippery, despite the temptation. Date: 1915

Garments for Women Who Work, WW1
First World War advertisement for clothing from Mrs Oliver Ltd of 39 Old Bond Street, featuring some suggested, garments for women who work

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