Actors.
Here are entered general works on both male and female actors collectively, works on both male and female stage actors collectively and works on individual male and female stage actors. Works on male actors collectively are entered under Male actors. Works on female actors collectively are entered under Actresses. Works on actors, collectively or individually, specializing in particular media are entered under the appropriate specific heading, e.g. Television actors and actresses, with an additional heading Male actors or Actresses, assigned as appropriate to works of collective biography.
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:- Actors -- Biography
- Actors -- Correspondence
- Actors -- Drama
- Actors -- England
- Actors -- Fiction
- Actors -- France
- Actors -- Germany
- Actors -- Great Britain
- Actors -- Ireland
- Actors -- Juvenile fiction
- Actors -- Salaries, etc.
- Actors -- United States
- Actors in literature
- Actresses
- Child actors
- Gay actors
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Television actors and actresses
- Theater and society
- Ventriloquists
- Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
- Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
- Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760
- Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Cole, Bob, 1868-1911
- Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876
- Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924
- Elliot, Frances, 1820-1898
- Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939
- Fisher, Clara, 1811-1898
- Fonda, Jane, 1937-
- Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779
- Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948
- Grossmith, George, 1847-1912
- Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944
- Howe, J. B. (J. Burdett), 1828-1908
- Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
- Jennings, Al, 1863-1961
- Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927
- Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
- Joyce, Peggy Hopkins, 1893-1957
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
- Lawrence, Gertrude
- Leno, Dan, 1860-1904
- Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971
- Lowell, Joan, 1900-1967
- Mac, Taylor, 1973-
- Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835
- McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
- Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942
- Miller, Tim, 1958-
- Morris, Clara, 1848-1925
- Pollock, Sharon
- Randolph, John, 1915-2004
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
- Robins, Elizabeth, 1862-1952
- Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
- Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834
- Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Simpson, O. J., 1947-2024
- Starr, Henry, 1873-1921
- Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
- Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1852-1917
- Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976
- Valentino, Rudolph, 1895-1926
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Stage actors
- Theater actors
- Theatrical actors
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The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- A Star Danced (author died in 1952; c1945), by Gertrude Lawrence (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Men, Marriage and Me (New York: Macauley Co., 1930), by Peggy Hopkins Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art of the Theatre (London: G. Bles, ca. 1924), by Sarah Bernhardt, trans. by H. J. Stenning, contrib. by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder (New York; The Dunlap society, 1897), by Clara Fisher, ed. by Douglas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Life of Charlotte Cushman (New York et al.: Brentano's, c1894), by W. T. Price (multiple formats at Google)
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (London: W. Heinemann, 1906), by Bram Stoker
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (revised and cheaper edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Bram Stoker
- A Society Clown: Reminiscences, by George Grossmith (Gutenberg text)
- Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)
- Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer und Heinrich Laube im Briefwechsel: Auf Grund der Originalhandschriften Dargestellt (in German; Berlin: Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, 1917), by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer and Heinrich Laube, ed. by Alexander von Weilen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- An Apology for The Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent Garden Theatre, Written by Herself; To Which is Annexed Her Original Letter to John Calcraft (5 volumes in 2; London: Printed for the author, 1785), by George Anne Bellamy
- A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- The Elizabethan Stage (4 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923), by E. K. Chambers
- No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- A Maid of Many Moods (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1902), by Virna Sheard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Comedienne (c1920), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Edmund Obecny (Gutenberg text)
- Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
- Der Guckkasten: Deutsche Schauspielbilder (in German; Stuttgart: J. Engelhorn, 1921), by Herbert Eulenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Der Guckkasten: Deutsche Schauspielbilder (in German; Stuttgart: J. Engelhorn, 1922), by Herbert Eulenberg
- Records of Later Life (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1882), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company (New York: Russell and Russell, 1961), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
- Frank Merriwell on the Road: or, The All-Star Combination (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)
- Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Joseph Litvak (HTML at UC Press)
- Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- The Children's Educational Theatre (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901), by Alice Minnie Herts Heniger (page images at Google; US access only)
- Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
- Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Nicholas Peter Ridout
- Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius (London: Onwhyn, ca. 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)
- Edwin Booth As I Knew Him (New York: The Players, 1933), by Edwin Milton Royle (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth: With a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of His Accomplices (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, ca. 1865), by George Alfred Townsend
- The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, and the Attempt To Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of Its Principal Officers (3 volumes; Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1865-1866), ed. by Benjamin Perley Poore
- John Wilkes Booth: Fact and Fiction of Lincoln's Assassination (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1929), by Francis Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, by George Alfred Townsend (Gutenberg text)
- Brecht's Tradition (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Max Spalter (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Great God Pan: A Biography of The Tramp Played by Charles Chaplin (New York: Hermitage House, c1952), by Robert Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
- Charlie Chaplin (London and New York: J. Lane, 1922), by Louis Delluc, trans. by Hamish Miles
- The Art of Cineplastics (Boston: Four Seas Co., 1923), by Élie Faure, trans. by Walter Pach (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself (new edition with notes and supplement, in 2 volumes; London: J. C. Nimmo, 1889), by Colley Cibber, ed. by Robert William Lowe, illust. by Robert Bowyer Parkes and Adolphe Lalauze
- The Case of Mrs. Clive, Submitted to the Publick (London: Printed for B. Dod, 1744), by Kitty Clive (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
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