Edwin Booth

Edwin Booth (* November 13, 1833 in Belair, Maryland, † June 7, 1893 in New York City ) was an American actor and brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Life

As an older brother had Edwin Booth - like her father - the acting career exemplified. He prepared under the direction of his father, Junius Brutus Booth, English actor, so good for the stage before, that he was already in 1849 a small role in Shakespeare's Richard III. play with success and in 1851 his ill father as Richard III. could represent. He was especially true of its representations in Shakespeare's plays as being particularly famous: Sun, included the roles of Macbeth, Hamlet, Shylock and Iago in the course of his successful career to his repertoire.

In 1863 or 1864 he rescued on a train platform in Jersey City Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, who had fallen from the platform edge between two cars of a halt train.

In the years 1869-1874 he was head of his own theater in New York.

1881 celebrated Booth, who was famous at that time as the best actor of the United States by the press ( Harper 's new monthly magazine ), a successful tour of England.

It acts like a macabre irony of history that he himself as Macbeth celebrated his greatest stage success in the role of king or tyrant murderer.

Filming

1955, written by Eleanor Ruggles Biography Prince of Players by 20th Century Fox starring Richard Burton as Edwin Booth was filmed as the king of actors.