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GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE (1756–1811)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 73 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:FREDERICK See also:COOKE (1756–1811)  , See also:English actor, was See also:born in See also:London, and made his first See also:appearance on the See also:stage in See also:Brentford at the See also:age of twenty as See also:Dumont in Jane See also:Shore . His first London appearance was at the Haymarket in 1778, but it was not until 1794 in See also:Dublin, as Othello, that be attained high See also:rank in his profession . In 18o1 he appeared in London as See also:Richard III., lago, Shylock and See also:Sir See also:Giles Overreach, and became the See also:rival of See also:Kemble, with whom, however, and with Mrs See also:Siddons, he acted from 1803 . His intemperate habits unfortunately See also:grew more and more notorious, and on at least one occasion the See also:curtain had to be See also:rung down owing to the See also:audience hissing his drunken See also:condition . He visited the See also:United States in 181o, and died in New See also:York on the 26th of See also:September 1811 . A See also:monument to his memory was erected in St See also:Paul's See also:churchyard there by See also:Edmund See also:Kean .

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