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

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