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DAVID JAMES (1839-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 143 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID See also:JAMES (1839-1893)  , See also:English actor, was See also:born in See also:London, his real name being Belasco . He began his See also:stage career at an See also:early See also:age, and after 1863 gradually made his way in humorous parts . His creation, in 1875, of the See also:part of Perkyn Middlewick in Our Boys made him famous as a comedian, the performance obtaining for the piece a then unprecedented run from the 16th of See also:January 1875 till the 18th of See also:April 1879 . In 1885 he had another notable success as Blueskin in Little See also:Jack See also:Sheppard at the Gaiety See also:Theatre, his See also:principal associates being Fred See also:Leslie and Nellie See also:Farren . His See also:song in this See also:burlesque, " See also:Botany See also:Bay," became widely popular . In the part of See also:John See also:Dory in See also:Wild Oats he again made a See also:great See also:hit at the Criterion Theatre in 1886; and among his other most successful impersonations were See also:Simon See also:Ingot in See also:David See also:Garrick, Tweedie in Tweedie's Rights, See also:Macclesfield in The Guv'nor, and See also:Eccles in See also:Caste . His unctuous See also:humour and unfailing See also:spirits made him a great favourite with the public .

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