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RICHARD MANSFIELD (1857-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:MANSFIELD (1857-1907)  , See also:American actor, was See also:born on the 24th of May 1857, in See also:Berlin, his See also:mother being Madame [Erminia] Rudersdorff (1822-1882), the See also:singer, and his See also:father, See also:Maurice See also:Mansfield (d . 1861), a See also:London See also:wine See also:merchant . He first appeared on the See also:stage at St See also:George's See also:Hall, London, and then drifted into See also:light See also:opera, playing the See also:Major-See also:General in The Pirates of See also:Penzance, and the See also:Lord High Executioner in The See also:Mikado, both in the See also:English provinces and in See also:America . In 1883 he joined A.M . See also:Palmer's See also:Union Square See also:theatre See also:company in New See also:York, and made a See also:great See also:hit as See also:Baron Chevrial in A Parisian See also:Romance . He appeared successfully in several plays adapted from well-known stories, and his rendering (1887) of the doubled See also:title-parts in R . L . See also:Stevenson's See also:Strange See also:Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr See also:Hyde created a profound impression . It was with this See also:play that he made his London reputation during a See also:season (1888) at the See also:Lyceum theatre, by invitation of See also:Henry See also:Irving . He produced See also:Richard III. the next. See also:year, at the Globe . Among his other See also:chief successes were See also:Prince Karl, Cyrano de See also:Bergerac and See also:Monsieur See also:Beaucaire . He was one of the earliest to produce G .

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Bernard See also:Shaw's plays in America, appearing in 1894 as See also:Bluntschli in Arms and the See also:Man, and as See also:Dick Dudgeon in The See also:Devil's See also:Disciple in 1897 . As a manager and producer of plays Mansfield was remarkable for his lavish staging . He died in New London, See also:Connecticut, on the 3oth of See also:August, 1907 . ;See the lives by See also:Paul Wilstach (1908) and See also:William See also:Winter (1910) .

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