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WILLIAM HENRY CRANE (1845– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 367 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:HENRY See also:CRANE (1845– )  , See also:American actor, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:April 1845, in See also:Leicester, See also:Massachusetts, and made his first See also:appearance at See also:Utica, New See also:York, in See also:Donizetti's Daughter of the See also:Regiment in 1863 . Later he had a See also:great success as Le See also:Blanc the See also:Notary, in the See also:burlesque Evangeline (1873) . He made his first See also:hit in the legitimate See also:drama with See also:Stuart See also:Robson (1836–1903), in The See also:Comedy of Errors and other Shakespearian plays, and in The Henrietta (1881) by Bronson See also:Howard (1842–1908) . This See also:partnership lasted for twelve years, and subsequently See also:Crane appeared in various See also:eccentric See also:character parts in such plays as The Senator and See also:David Harum . In 1904 he turned to more serious See also:work and played Isidore Izard in Business is Business, an See also:adaptation from See also:Octave See also:Mirbeau's See also:Les Affaires sont les affaires .

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