William Morton (24 January 1838 – 5 July 1938) was an amusement caterer, a theatre and cinema manager in England for 70 years. After an erratic start...
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physician William Morton (priest) (born 1956), Dean of Derry William Morton (theatre manager) (1839–1939), amusement caterer and theatre and cinema manager in...
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fellow theologian Edward Stallybrass. William Morton, theatre manager, born in 1838, grew up in Royston. Morton Street was named after his father, George...
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of their early days can be found in the relevant section of William Morton (theatre manager). Dawes, Edwin (1979). "The Great Illusionists". Chartwell...
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renamed the Palace Theatre of Varieties, managed successfully first by Sir Augustus Harris and then by Charles Morton. In 1897, the theatre began to screen...
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Greenwich Theatre, it subsequently acquired several new names including Theatre Royal, New Prince of Wales's Theatre, Morton's Theatre and Carlton Theatre. Even...
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Series. In 2016, Morton portrayed the activist and comedian Dick Gregory in the play Turn Me Loose at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan. Morton portrayed Dr...
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John Martin-Harvey (category Actor-managers)
Harvey's personal friends was theatre manager, William Morton. In 1902 Morton's Ltd was formed to build the Alexandra Theatre in Hull. Martin Harvey was...
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in the company were: William Faversham and Julie Opp James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon Morton Selten and Kate Pattison-Selten...
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Charles Morton (15 August 1819 – 18 October 1904) was a music hall and theatre manager. Born in Hackney, east London, he built the first purpose-built...
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John Tobin (1807) William Clayton h in The Gazette Extraordinary by Joseph George Holman (1811) Damper in Education by Thomas Morton (1813) Highfill, Burnim...
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including the recently restored Morton Theater in Athens, Georgia, originally operated by "Pinky" Monroe Morton, and Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia owned...
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Harry Melling (actor) (category National Youth Theatre members)
in a revival of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Royal National Theatre. He appeared in "The Sorcerer's Shadow", an episode of the BBC television...
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half-brother, Eugene Xavier Charles William Peel Fletcher, from her father's second marriage to Pauline de Bearnez de Morton de La Chapelle. In early 1943,...
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William Macready the Elder (1755–1829) was an Irish actor-manager. The son of a Dublin upholsterer, Macready started his career playing in Irish country...
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stage name Dorothy Morton, was an American stage actress and soprano who had an active career in mainly light operas and musical theatre from the 1880s until...
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Antitheatricality (category Theatre criticism)
drawing audiences that did not normally attend the theatre. William Morton was a provincial theatre manager in England whose management experience spanned...
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Wonder Theaters, the Loew's Kings Theatre featured a "Wonder Morton" theater pipe organ manufactured by the Robert Morton Organ Company, though the organ...
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searched for Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, investigated the claims of Indian ascetics and became manager of the Garrick Theatre in London. Stevens,...
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circus building, it was named the Olympic Theatre in July 1812 under the management of actor-manager William Twaits along with Alexander Placide and Jean...
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Irish stage actor and theatre manager. Originally, intended for a career in law, he was acting at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre by 1774, combining this...
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(1947) – Charles Morton Mr. Reckless (1948) – Jeff Lundy Special Agent (1949) – Johnny Douglas Customs Agent (1950) – Bert Stewart "William Eythe, actor and...
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include playing Roy Slater in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, Desmond Morton in the HBO / BBC film The Gathering Storm (2002), and Lord Longford in the...
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Thomas Morton (1797) April in Secrets Worth Knowing by Thomas Morton (1798) Doctor Crisis in The Eccentric Lover by Richard Cumberland (1798) William in The...
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W. G. R. Sprague (redirect from William George Robert Sprague)
profession." In 1898, William Morton, owner and manager of the Greenwich Theatre, commissioned Sprague to produce plans for a 3,000-seat theatre to replace his...
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In 1898 William Morton's Theatre Royal showed a 'Veriscope' film, probably the first time any film was shown in a Hull theatre. The Prince's Hall was the...
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Beef Steaks", which had been founded in 1735 by theatre manager Henry Rich, had its home at the theatre for over 50 years until 1867. The members, who...
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Peter Davison (section Theatre roles)
Fourteenth Doctors. Davison married his third wife, actress and writer Elizabeth Morton, in 2003. The couple live in Twickenham and have two sons, Louis (born 1999)...
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sister) Fox West Coast Theatres (beginning 1957) "Billie" Tannehill (né William Jackson Tannehill; 1925–2001), theater manager in Burlingame from about...
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appearances on the first season of ABC's Brothers & Sisters, playing David Morton, a friend and potential suitor of protagonist Nora Walker. In 2007, Williams...
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