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Junius Brutus Booth (1 May 1796 – 30 November 1852) was an English-American stage actor. He was the father of actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (December 22, 1821 – September 17, 1883) was an American actor and theatre manager. As a member of the illustrious Booth family of actors, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was overshadowed by his father Junius Sr. and brothers Edwin and John Wilkes (the assassin of Abraham Lincoln) and later by his wife Agnes, a ...
Junius Brutus Booth. English Stage Actor. He was named after Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the lead assassins in William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar. His interests in theater came after seeing Othello at the Covent Garden Theatre.
A copy of a portrait of Junius Brutus Booth, a famous actor and theater manager in the 19th century. The painting is owned by the Museum of the City of New York and is part of the Catalog of American Portraits.
Hace 4 días · Junius Brutus Booth. (1796—1852) actor. Quick Reference. (1796–1852) Anglo-American actor. He came to attention in London as Richard III at Covent Garden (1817). Reputed to be of Jewish descent, he incorporated Hebrew into his Shylock (1818). In ... From: Booth, Junius Brutus in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance »
Junius Brutus Booth, 1796–1852, Anglo-American actor. After experience in the provinces, he appeared at Covent Garden. In 1817, with his portrayal of Richard III, he established himself as a rival of Edmund Kean.
…his eccentric father, the actor Junius Brutus Booth (born in London, 1796), who in 1821 had moved to the United States, where he achieved popularity second only to that of the American actor Edwin Forrest.
