Actors -- Biography
See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif)
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)
- An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
- A Cosmopolitan Actor: His Adventures All Over the World (London: Bedford Pub. Co., ca. 1888), by J. B. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dan Leno (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Jay Hickory Wood
- Memoirs of Mary Robinson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1895), by Mary Darby Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson, contrib. by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)
- The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons
- The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (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)
- On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
- Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellen Terry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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
- A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (16 volumes; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, c1973-1993), by Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans (page images at HathiTrust)
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne
- Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages From the Journal of A member of Augustin Daly's Famous Company of Players (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Dora Knowlton Ranous
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne
- Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius (London: Onwhyn, ca. 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), ed. by Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Actors- 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)
- 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)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.