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ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858 )

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 564 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858 ) , English actor, whose family name was Samson, was born in
Reading
  on the 19th of June 1858, the son of a Scottish manufacturer. He went into business in London after leaving school, but having acted as an
amateur
  he determined to make the stage his profession. His first
appearance
  was at Nottingham in 1879, and after some seasons of provincial experience he made his first London
appearance
  as Caleb Deecie in Two Roses in 1881 with Irving at the Lyceum. He was selected by W. S. Gilbert to support Mary Anderson in Comedy and Tragedy, returned for a time to the Lyceum, where he was Irving's
principal
  associate, especially as Faust (1886) and Macduff (1888); and, after starting success-fully under his own management at the Avenue Theatre in 1890 with Dr Bill, in 1891 became manager of the St James's Theatre. There he produced a number of successful plays, notably Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of being
Earnest
 , Pinero's Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Princess and the Butterfly, His
House
  in Order and The Thunderbolt; C. Haddon Chambers's The Idler; H. A. Jones's Masqueraders; Alfred Sutro's John Glayde's Honour and The Builder of Bridges; Carton's LibertyHall and The Tree of Knowledge; Anthony
Hope
 's Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau; and Stephen Phillips's
Paolo
  and Francesca, himself playing the leading parts with
great
  distinction. In 1907 he was elected a member of the London County Council as a municipal reformer, but continued to act regularly at the St James's.


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