Otho Stuart
Otho Stuart | |
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Died | 1 May 1930 | (aged 66)
Occupation | Actor |
Otho Stuart (9 August 1863 – 1 May 1930) was a British actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who specialised in performing in the plays of Shakespeare. Stuart played the range of Shakespearean leading men, both with the Company of F. R. Benson and with his own Company during his management of the Adelphi Theatre in London. Of independent means, he used his own money to help finance Benson's productions and his own. The theatre critic J. C. Trewin described him as 'one of the handsomest Oberons of all time.'[1]
Early career
He was born as Otto Stuart Andreae in 1863 in
Theatrical career
In Benson's 1888 season at Stratford-upon-Avon he played Morello opposite Ada Ferrar in Andrea;[8] Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream;[9] Horatio in Hamlet;[10] Paris in Romeo and Juliet;[11] and was Dashwood in The Belle's Stratagem.[12]
In 1891 he was touring with the Company of
Actor-manager
In 1896 he was touring as
When the lease at the
Stuart returned to F. R. Benson for his later seasons at Stratford, playing Dr. Burton in The Peacemaker opposite Lilian Braithwaite (1907),[32] and the Duke of Clarence in Richard III (1909 and 1910);[33] He was Edward Stacy Spells in Through the Post at the Royal Court Theatre (1910).[34]
For Benson at Stratford Stuart played Bassanio and Gratiano in
In
In 1898 he married the actress Emma Marion South (1867-1927) in London.[42] Their daughter was Elizabeth Mary Emma Andreae (1903-1993).
Stuart was a Governmentor of the
In his later years he lived at 14 The Boltons, South Kensington. He died in London in 1930 and left an estate valued at £26,905 14s.[43]
References
- ^ a b Nicholas Fogg, Secret Stratford-upon-Avon, Amberley Publishing (2017) - Google Books
- ^ 1881 England Census for Otto Andreae: London, Battersea - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ a b OTHO STUART, LONDON ACTOR-MANAGER, DIES; Governmentor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Made His Stage Debut in 1886 - The New York Times, 2 May 1930, Page 21
- ^ Cast of Hamlet (1886) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of Othello (1886) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of Richard III (1886) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of The Corsican Brothers (1886) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of Andrea (1888) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1888) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of Hamlet (1888) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of Romeo and Juliet (1888) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of The Belle's Stratagem (1888) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ 1891 England Census for Otho S Andreae: Nottinghamshire, St Mary, Nottingham North West - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ Cast of Hamlet (1891) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of Much Ado About Nothing (1891) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of New Men and Old Acres (1891) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of The Tempest (1891) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Who's who in the theatre: a biographical record of the contemporary stage, compiled and edited John Parker. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1912 (p. 469)
- ^ Cast of Coriolanus (1893) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of The Corsican Brothers (1893) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Geddeth Smith, Walter Hampden: Dean of the American Theatre, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2008) - Google Books p. 35
- ^ Smith, Walter Hampden, p. 52
- ^ Brian Singleton, Oscar Asche, Orientalism, and British Musical Comedy, Praeger Publishing (2004) - Google Books p. 49
- ^ The Letters of Henry Irving - The Henry Irving Database
- ^ The Adelphi Theatre, The London Encyclopaedia, Pan MacMillan
- ^ 'The Virgin Goddess at the Adelphi - The Graphic, 3 November 1906, p. 567
- ^ J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books p. 316
- ^ Selina Hastings,The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography, Arcade Publishing (2012) - Google Books
- ^ The Collected Plays of W. Somerset Maugham, volume 1. Heinemann, 1961. Preface, pages vii–xi
- ^ Avram Davidson, Adventures in Unhistory: Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends, Tor Press (2013) - Google Books
- ^ Anthony Curtis and John Whitehead, W. Somerset Maugham, Routledge (2013) Pages 68–70
- ^ Cast of The Peacemaker (1907) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of Richard III (1909) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ a b c J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books
- ^ Cast of The Merchant of Venice (1910) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of You Never Can Tell (1912) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ Cast of She Stoops to Conquer (1912) - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ a b Plays of Otho Stuart - Theatricalia website
- ^ List of performances of Otho Stuart - Royal Shakespeare Company website
- ^ David Skal, Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice, The University Press of Kentucky (2008) - Google Books p. 192
- ^ J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books p. 68
- ^ Otto Stuart Andreae in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Otto Stuart Andreae:1930 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)