UCF Research Guides: Theatre People: Biographies & Autobiographies: Actors & Actresses

19th Century Actors & Actresses

Dramatic life as I found it by Noah Miller Ludlow
Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 4th Floor -- PN2273.S5L8 1966
"a record of personal experience; with an account of the rise and progress of the drama in the West and South, with anecdotes and biographical sketches of the principal actors and actresses who have at times appeared upon the stage in the Mississippi Valley"
ch4ck availability of the reprint of the 1880 edition
Famous Actors of the Day, in America by Lewis Clinton Strang
Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 4th Floor -- PN2285.S75 1900
Famous Actors of the Day in America, 2nd series by Lewis Clinton Strang
Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- PN2285 .S75 1902
Famous Actresses of the Day in America by Lewis Clinton Strang
Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- PN2285 .S77 1899
History of the American Stage: Containing Biographical Sketches of Nearly Every Member of the Profession that has Appeared on the American Stage, from 1733-1970 by Thomas Allston Brown
Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 4th Floor -- PN2285.B75 1969
ch4ck availability of print version
History of the American Theatre, & Anecdotes of the Principal Actors by William Dunlap
Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 4th Floor -- PN2221.D8 1963
"2d ed., improved, incorporating a list of early plays and "A narrative of his connection with the Old American Company, 1792-1797," by John Hodgkinson."
ch4ck availability of the reprint of the 1797 edition
Stage & Screen by Marion Howard Brazier
Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- PN2256 .B7 1920
brief descriptions of actors & actresses from the 1860s through 1920