Nora Noel Jill Bennett was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.
The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was later adapted into a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich.
William Wheatley was an American stage actor.
Emily Stevens was a stage and screen actress in Broadway plays in the first three decades of the 20th century and later in silent movies.
Sarah Harlowe (1765–1852) was a popular actress of the London stage around the turn of the 19th century.
Marion Bessie Terry was an English actress. In a career spanning half a century, she played leading roles in more than 125 plays. Always in the shadow of her older and more famous sister Ellen, Terry nevertheless achieved considerable success in the plays of W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and others.
Aline Laveen MacMahon was an American actress. Her career began on stage in 1921. She worked extensively in film and television until her retirement in 1975. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944).
William Augustus Conway was an English actor.
Ann Brunton Merry was an actor popular in the UK and later America.
Sarah Thorne was a British actress and actress-manager of the 19th century who managed the Theatre Royal at Margate for many years. She ran a school for acting there which is widely regarded as Britain's first formal drama school. The Sarah Thorne Theatre Club in Broadstairs is named in her memory.
Jane Elizabeth Vezin was a British actress.
Adele Rowland was an American actress and singer.
Alberta Gallatin was an American stage and film actress active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During her near forty-year career she acted in support of the likes of Elizabeth Crocker Bowers, James O’Neil, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Thomas W. Keene, Richard Mansfield, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Otis Skinner, Maurice Barrymore, Joseph Adler, E. H. Sothern and James K. Hackett. Gallatin was perhaps best remembered by theatergoers for her varied classical roles, as Mrs. Alving in Henrik Ibsen's domestic tragedy Ghosts and the central character in the Franz Grillparzer tragedy Sappho. Counted among her few film roles was the part of Mrs. MacCrea in the 1914 silent film The Christian, an early 8-reel production based on the novel by Hall Caine.
Lydia Foote, born Lydia Alice Legg, was an English actress. She played leading roles from the 1850s to the 1880s, including at the Lyceum Theatre, the Olympic Theatre, the Prince of Wales's Theatre and the Adelphi Theatre. She was known for her performances in such plays as The Frozen Deep (1866) and Caste (1867).
Elizabeth Ponisi Wallis, née Hansom or Hanson, known throughout her career as Madame Ponisi, was an English-American actress.
Sarah Mundell Crane known professionally as Mrs. A. Ogden Crane, was an American concert singer and musical educator. She toured with her three sisters and niece, who were known as the Mundell or Amphlon Quartet, and later became a successful music instructor.
James Grant Wilson was an American editor, author, bookseller and publisher, who founded the Chicago Record in 1857, the first literary paper in that region. During the American Civil War, he served as a colonel in the Union Army. In recognition of his service, in 1867, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865. He settled in New York, where he edited biographies and histories, was a public speaker, and served as president of the Society of American Authors and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian.
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography is a six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World. Published between 1887 and 1889, its unsigned articles were widely accepted as authoritative for several decades. Later the encyclopedia became notorious for including dozens of biographies of people who had never existed. The apostrophe in the title is correctly placed and indicates that more than one person, i.e. a company, authored the work.
