Galvin (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904), better known by the stage name Dan Leno, was a leading English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor during...
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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (published in the United States as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. It...
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The film, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, stars Olivia Cooke, Bill Nighy and Douglas Booth...
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and Columbine. A new Mother Goose pantomime was written for the comedian Dan Leno by J. Hickory Wood and Arthur Collins for performances at Theatre Royal...
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Belgrave Hospital for Children (section Dan Leno)
Political Union suffragettes. On 20 October 1904, the music hall star Dan Leno donated £625 to the hospital after his last show. He died 11 days later...
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Dan Leno (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904) was an English comedian and stage actor of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, famous for performing in music...
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that first aired from May 25, 1992, to May 29, 2009. It resumed...
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Herbert Campbell (1844–1904) a highly popular pantomime dame alongside Dan Leno at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Les Dawson – (1931–1993) English comedian...
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Dan Leno (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904) was an English comedian and stage actor, famous for appearing in music hall, comic plays, pantomimes, Victorian...
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clown performance on the stage and began to be worked in, notably with Dan Leno as Twankay along with Aladdin's brother Washee-Washee in 1896. The name...
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Leno is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bernd Leno (born 1992), German footballer Dan Leno (1860–1904), English music hall comedian...
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comedy correspondent on The Jay Leno Show and continued on as a correspondent on the new The Tonight Show with Jay Leno performing all original material...
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Sheet music for Harry King's setting of the song performed by Dan Leno (1889)...
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1890 Harry Freeman 1891 Dan Leno 1892 Dan Leno 1893 Wal Pink 1894 Joe Elvin 1895 J. W. Cragg 1896 Eugene Stratton 1897 Dan Leno 1898 Joe O'Gorman (senior)...
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Hodges in Dad's Army (2016). He appeared in a small cameo as the performer Dan Leno in a BBC drama about music hall star Marie Lloyd and in the final Masterpiece...
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The Jay Leno Show is an American prime time talk show hosted by Jay Leno that was broadcast by NBC from September 14, 2009 to February 9, 2010. The series...
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resorting to prostitution. She next starred in the film adaptation of Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, a gothic murder mystery, opposite Bill Nighy and...
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hall sketches include Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, George Formby and Dan Leno. The influential English music hall comedian and theatre impresario Fred...
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Herbert Darnley (section Dan Leno)
King's jester" Dan Leno. Darnley's Mr Wix of Wickham toured in 1902, starting at the Borough Theatre, Stratford in July. It starred Leno in a male lead...
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been the residency of well known actors including Edmund Kean, comedian Dan Leno and the musical composer and performer Ivor Novello. From the Second World...
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Limehouse Golem, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 murder mystery novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem. Goldman read the book years before she was a professional...
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Theatre in New York City. Although he never reached the height of stars like Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell, Chaplin was successful enough to have his name and...
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correspondent on "The Jay Leno Show" and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. "The Dan Band" has released three albums: The Dan Band Live, the full-length...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Mr. Charles Bingley The Limehouse Golem Dan Leno 2017 Loving Vincent Armand Roulin Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley 2019...
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provide the music for a plethora of star performers, such as Marie Lloyd, Dan Leno, Little Tich, and George Leybourne. All manner of other entertainment was...
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Johnny Danvers (section Dan Leno)
Lane in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries, usually with his nephew Dan Leno. Danvers was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, to Charles Dutton Harold (1843-1880)...
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John Dee in The House of Dr Dee (1993); Dan Leno, Karl Marx, George Gissing and Thomas De Quincey in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994); John Milton...
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A notable, and highly successful, pantomime dame from this period was Dan Leno. Beyond theatre, in the 1800s, Molly houses became a place for gay men...
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pantomimes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, between 1891 and 1893 alongside Dan Leno and Marie Lloyd. Born in Cudham, Kent, Little Tich began performing aged...
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Measure for Measure, Truscott in Loot, Touchstone in As You Like It, and Dan Leno in The Funniest man in the world (Stratford East, 1977). At the Sheffield...
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