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Du Maurier, Sir Gerald Hubert Edward
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
Du Maurier, Sir Gerald Hubert Edward
(1871–1934), English actor-manager. He was with Tree at the Haymarket Theatre , playing a small part in Trilby (1895), a dramatization of the novel by his father George. After remaining with Tree for some years, he came into prominence at the Duke of York's Theatre , under Charles Frohman , in Barrie's The Admirable Crichton (1902). He was the first to play Mr Darling and Captain Hook in Barrie's Peter Pan (1904), and made a great success at the Comedy Theatre in E. W. Hornung's Raffles (1906), following it with Arsène Lupin , from the ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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