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LESLIE, FRED [See also:FREDERICK HOBSON] (1855–1892) , See also:English actor, was See also:born at See also:Woolwich on the 1st of See also:April 1855. He made his first See also:stage See also:appearance in See also:London as See also:Colonel See also:Hardy in See also:Paul Pry in 1878. He had a See also:good See also:voice, and in 1882 made a See also:great See also:hit as Rip See also:Van Winkle in See also:Planquette's See also:opera of that name at the See also:Comedy. In 1885 he appeared at the Gaiety as See also:Jonathan See also:Wild in H. P. See also:Stephens and W. Yardley's See also:burlesque Little See also:Jack See also:Sheppard. His extraordinary success in this See also:part determined his subsequent career, and for some years he and Nelly See also:Farren, with whom he played in perfect association, were the pillars of Gaiety burlesque. Leslie's " See also:Don See also:Caesar de Bazan " in Ruy Blas, or the Blase Roue, was perhaps the most popular of his later parts. In all of them it was his own versatility and entertaining See also:personality which formed the attraction; whether he sang, danced, whistled or " gagged," his performance was an unending flow of high See also:spirits and ludicrous See also:charm. Under the See also:pseudonym of " A. C.

Torr " he was acknowledged on the programmes as part-author of these burlesques, and while on occasion he acted in more serious comedy, for which he had undoubted capacity, his fame rests on his connexion with them. In 1881 and 1883 he played in See also:

America. He died on the 7th of See also:December 1892. See W. T. See also:Vincent, Recollections of Fred Leslie (1894).

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