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SULLIVAN, THOMAS BARRY (1824-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 57 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SULLIVAN, See also:THOMAS See also:BARRY (1824-1891) , Irish actor, was See also:born at See also:Birmingham, and made his first See also:stage See also:appearance at See also:Cork about 184o. His earliest successes were in romantic See also:drama, for which his graceful figure and youthful See also:enthusiasm fitted him. His first See also:London appearance was in 1852 in See also:Hamlet, and he was also successful as Angiolo in See also:Miss Vandenhoff's Woman's See also:Heart, See also:Evelyn in See also:Money and Hardman in See also:Lord See also:Lytton's Not so See also:Bad as we Seem. See also:Claude Melnotte—with See also:Helen See also:Faucit as Pauline—was also a notable performance. A tour of See also:America in 18J7 preceded his going to See also:Australia (1861) for six years, as actor and manager. He completed a trip See also:round the See also:world in 1866. From 1868–187o he managed the See also:Holborn See also:theatre, where See also:Beverley in The Gamester was one of his most powerful impersonations. Afterwards he travelled over the See also:United States, See also:Canada, Australia and See also:England. Among his later London performances were several Shakespearian parts, his best, perhaps, being See also:Richard III. He was the Benedick of the See also:cast of Much See also:Ado About Nothing with which the See also:Shakespeare Memorial was opened at See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon. He died on the 3rd of May 1891.

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