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

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