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Our actors and actresses: the dramatic list; of living actors and actresses of the British stage. Edited by Charles Eyre Pascoe.

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London, D. Bogue, 1880.

1880

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Actors of the century; a play-lover's gleanings from theatrical annals.

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London : George Bell and Sons 1898.

1898

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Oscar Asche, his life, by himself.

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[London] Hurst & Blackett [1929]

1929

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FormatTextCall numberMWES (Asche) (Asche, O. Oscar Asche)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Cicely.

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London, Hutchinson [1953]

1953

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Florence Desmond.

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London, Harrap [1953]

1953

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Early stages.

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London, Falcon Press [1953]

1953

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Let's pretend; recollections and reflections of a lucky actor, by Cedric Hardwicke.

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London, Grayson & Grayson [1932]

1932-

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Emigrant in motley; the journey of Charles and Ellen Kean in quest of a theatrical fortune in Australia and America, as told in their hitherto unpublished letters. Edited by J.M.D. Hardwick, with a foreword by Anthony Quayle.

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London, Rockliff [1954]

1954

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No chip on my shoulder.

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London : H. Jenkins, [1957]

1957

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Matty; an autobiography. With a foreword by Noël Coward.

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London, Hutchinson [1952]

1952

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Mr. Showbusiness, the autobiograpy of Vic Oliver.

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London, Harrap [1954]

1954

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Take it for a fact; a record of my seventy-five years on the stage. With a foreword by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Illustrated from the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson theatre collection.

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London, Heinemann [1954]

1954

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Act one.

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London, New York : Nelson, [1953]

1953

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Just a little bit of string. With a foreword by Beverly Nichols.

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London, Hutchinson [1955]

1955

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Forty years in the limelight, by W. H. (Bill) Berry; with a foreword by Seymour Hicks. With 38 illustrations.

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London, Hutchinson [1939]

1939

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An actor's story.

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London, Chapman & Hall, 1909.

1909

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Bransby Williams, by himself. With a foreword by Naomi Jacob.

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London, Hutchinson, [1954]

1954

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First interval; the autobiography of Donald Wolfit.

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Long Acre, London, Odhams Press [1954]

1954

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British theatre. Foreword by Laurence Olivier.

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London, British Yearbooks [1946]

1946

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The children of Thespis. [electronic resource] : A poem. Part first.

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[London] : Printed by Denew and Grant, No. 91, Wardour-Street, Soho; and sold by J. Bew, Paternoster-Row; T. Hookham, Corner of Bruton-Street, New Bond-Street; and R. Jameson, No. 227, Strand, near Temple-Bar. M,DCC,LXXXVI. (entered at Stationers' Hall.), [1786]

1786

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The children of Thespis. [electronic resource] : A poem. Part first.

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[London] : Printed by Denew and Grant, No 91, Wardour-Street, Soho; and sold by J. Bew; T. Hookman; and R. Jameson, 1786.

1786

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The rosciad. [electronic resource] : By C. Churchill.

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London : printed for the author, and sold by W. Flexney, near Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn, MDCCLXII. [1762]

1762

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Memoirs of his own life, [electronic resource] : by Tate Wilkinson, Patenter of the Theatres-Royal, York and Hull. In three volumes.

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Dublin : printed for P. Byrne, P. Wogan, J. Parker, J. Moore, A. Grueber, W. Jones, J. Rice, R. White, and G. Draper M,DCC,XCI. [1791]

1791

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A pageant of English actors.

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London, Rockliff [1950]

1950

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An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber / written by himself ; with twenty-six original mezzotint portraits by R.B. Parkes and eighteen etchings by Adolphe Lalauze.

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London : J.C. Nimmo, 1889.

1889

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An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian / written by himself.

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London : Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830.

1830

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Players and playwrights I have known: a review of the English stage from 1840 to 1880, by John Coleman, actor and manager ...

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Philadelphia, Gebbie & co., 1890.

1890

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Florence Desmond.

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London, Harrap [1953]

1953

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The lives of the players / By John Galt.

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Boston : F. S. Hill, 1831.

1831

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British theatre. Foreword by Laurence Olivier.

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London, British Yearbooks [1946]

1946

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Famous actors: biographies and portraits reprinted and reproduced from Oxberry's "Dramatic biography".

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Edinburgh, W. H. White, 1894.

1894-1825

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The drama of yesterday & to-day, by Clement Scott ...

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London, Macmillan and Co., limited; New York, The Macmillan Company, 1899.

1899

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An actor's story.

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London, Chapman & Hall, 1909.

1909

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Bransby Williams, by himself. With a foreword by Naomi Jacob.

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London, Hutchinson, [1954]

1954

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A memoir of Charles Mayne Young, tragedian, with extracts from his son's journal. By Julian Charles Young. With portraits and sketches.

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London, New York, Macmillan and Co., 1871.

1871

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