Edmund Kean

Never mind what Edmund Kean said on his deathbed: It's tragedy now that's hard.

Carl Hiaasen's Hollywood comedy, "Star Island" 2010

By 1908 the two were running their own company which appeared at the Empire, Ardwick Green, the Hippodrome, Oxford Street, the Coliseum, Charing Cross, and Camberwell Empire in 1908-11, performing plays such as The Organ-Grinder, Edmund Kean and The Guardian Angel.

Guy Ramsey Steve 2010

All other attractions, for example, fairground booths (such as Richardson's tent, where Edmund Kean learned his business in the flare of vats of burning fat), had to find amusements that didn't infringe the regulations – song, ballet, mime, rope-dancing, stilt-walking, fights or animal acts.

Projections of puppet theatre Vera Rule 2010

Robert Stephens in the 'BBC Play of the Month' "Kean" 1978, based on the play by Jean-Paul Sartre about the actor Edmund Kean

Archive 2009-07-19 Toby O'B 2009

He was at his gayest—a dress rehearsal was his happiest time—and he knew his costume well: he had worn it when he played Iago in Othello and Edmund Kean in the famous play by Dumas père.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

He was at his gayest—a dress rehearsal was his happiest time—and he knew his costume well: he had worn it when he played Iago in Othello and Edmund Kean in the famous play by Dumas père.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

He was at his gayest—a dress rehearsal was his happiest time—and he knew his costume well: he had worn it when he played Iago in Othello and Edmund Kean in the famous play by Dumas père.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

He was at his gayest—a dress rehearsal was his happiest time—and he knew his costume well: he had worn it when he played Iago in Othello and Edmund Kean in the famous play by Dumas père.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

He was at his gayest—a dress rehearsal was his happiest time—and he knew his costume well: he had worn it when he played Iago in Othello and Edmund Kean in the famous play by Dumas père.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

Gielgud was both a pioneer of modern theater and the last of England's great classical actors, the heir to David Garrick, Edmund Kean, William Macready -- and Ellen Terry, his great-aunt.

The Last Titan Of The Theater 2008