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19th-century theatre directors

56 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Anton Giulio BragagliaPhotographer · PhotographyAnton Giulio Bragaglia (11 February 1890 – 15 July 1960) was a pioneer in Italian Futurist photography and Futurist cinema.
Bertolt BrechtAuthor · BooksEugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.[61] Coming of age…
Charles DullinPerson · Film memorabiliaCharles Dullin (8 May 1885 – 11 December 1949) was a French actor, theater manager and director.
Charles LaughtonPerson · Film memorabiliaCharles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English actor and director.
Charles MacArthurAuthor · BooksCharles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story for The Scoundrel (1935).
Constantin TănasePerson · Film memorabiliaIllustration — Constantin Tănase (second from left) starring in Visul lui Tănase (Tănase's Dream), 1932
Constantine StanislavskyPerson · Film memorabiliaKonstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski (Константин Сергеевич Станиславский; Alekseyev; 17 January 18637 August 1938) was a seminal Russian and Soviet theatre practitioner.
Cyril RitchardPerson · Music memorabiliaCyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard (1 December 1898 – 18 December 1977), known professionally as Cyril Ritchard, was an Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director.
Dimitrios DemeterAuthor · BooksDimitrija Demeter or Dimitrije Demeter (Dimitrios Dimitriou; 21 July 1811 – 24 June 1872) was a Croatian poet, dramatist, short story writer and literary critic.
Eduards SmiļģisPerson · Film memorabiliaEduards Smiļģis (23 November 1886 – 19 April 1966) was a Latvian and Soviet actor and theatre director. He became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1948.
Edward Gordon CraigPhotographer · PhotographyEdward Craig (disambiguation)
Efim DziganPerson · Film memorabiliaYefim Lvovich Dzigan (14 December 189831 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, and People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Einar Hjörleifsson KvaranAuthor · BooksEinar Gísli Hjörleifsson Kvaran (6 December 1859 in Vallanes, Iceland as Einar Hjörleifsson – 21 May 1938 in Reykjavík) was an Icelandic editor, novelist, poet, playwright and prominent…
Eva Le GalliennePerson · Film memorabiliaEva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 – June 3, 1991) was an English-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author.
F. R. HigginsAuthor · BooksFrederick Robert Higgins (24 April 1896 – 6 January 1941) was an Irish poet and theatre director.
Federico García LorcaPerson · Music memorabiliaFederico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.
Fernand CrommelynckAuthor · BooksFernand Crommelynck (19 November 1886 – 17 March 1970) was a Belgian dramatist. His work is known for farces in which commonplace weaknesses are developed into monumental obsessions.
Frank BealPerson · Film memorabiliaFrank Beal (September 11, 1862 – December 20, 1934) was an American actor and film director of the silent film era.
Frank CravenPerson · Film memorabiliaFrank Craven (August 24, 1875September 1, 1945) was an American stage and film actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton…
Franz Theodor CsokorAuthor · BooksFranz Theodor Csokor (6 September 1885 – 5 January 1969) was an Austrian author and dramatist, particularly well known for his expressionist dramas.
Friedrich KaysslerAuthor · BooksFriedrich Martin Adalbert Kayssler, also spelled Kayßler (7 April 1874 – 30 April 1945), was a German theatre and film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1913 and 1945.
Fritz KortnerPerson · Film memorabiliaFritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn, 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director.
Gene LockhartPerson · Film memorabiliaEdwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, playwright, singer, and lyricist.
Georg Wilhelm PabstPerson · Film memorabiliaGeorg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter.
George CukorPerson · Film memorabiliaGeorge Dewey Cukor[1] (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.[2] He concentrated primarily on comedies and literary adaptations.
George Foster PlattPerson · Film memorabiliaGeorge Foster Platt (July 27, 1866 – November 16, 1928) was an American stage actor as well as a director of stage and filmed shows.
George S. KaufmanPerson · Film memorabiliaGeorge Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic.
Grigori RoshalPerson · Film memorabiliaGrigori Lvovich Roshal (21 October 1899 – 11 January 1983) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1967).
Gunnar HeibergAuthor · BooksGunnar Edvard Rode Heiberg (18 November 1857 – 22 February 1929) was a Norwegian poet, playwright, journalist and theatre critic.
Harley Granville-BarkerPerson · Film memorabiliaHarley Granville-Barker (25 November 1877 – 31 August 1946) was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist.
HervéPerson · Music memorabiliaLouis-Auguste Florimond Ronger (30 June 1825 – 3 November 1892), who used the pseudonym Hervé, was a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman,…
Huberto Pérez de la OssaAuthor · BooksIllustration — Image of Huberto Pérez de la Ossa Rodríguez
Hugo BallPerson · Film memorabiliaHugo Ball (lang; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, dramatist, and journalist, and one of the principal founders of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich…
Ivan MoskvinPerson · Film memorabiliaIvan Mikhailovich Moskvin (18 June 1874, in Moscow – 16 February 1946, in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet actor and theater director. People's Artist of the USSR (1936).
Julian TuwimAuthor · BooksJulian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym Oldlen as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition.
Leslie HowardPerson · Film memorabiliaLeslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943), better known as Leslie Howard, was an English actor, director, producer, and writer.
Marc ConnellyPerson · Film memorabiliaMarcus Cook Connelly (December 13, 1890 – December 21, 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist.
Marko KropyvnytskyiPerson · Music memorabiliaMarko Lukych Kropyvnytskyi (–) was a Ukrainian writer, playwright, composer, theatre actor and director.
Max GülstorffPerson · Film memorabiliaMax Walter Gülstorff (23 March 1882 – 6 February 1947) was a German actor and stage director.
Michael ChekhovPerson · Film memorabiliaMikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov (16 August 1891 – 30 September 1955), better known as Michael Chekhov, was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner.
Mikheil ChiaureliArtist · SculptureMikheil Chiaureli (Mikhail Edisherovich Chiauerli; 6 February 1894 – 31 October 1974) was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1928 and 1974.
Mykola VoronyiAuthor · BooksMykola Kindratovych Voronyi (6 December 1871 – 7 June 1938) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, actor, director, and political activist.
Ngaio MarshAuthor · BooksDame Edith Ngaio Marsh (23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand writer.
Noël CowardPerson · Film memorabiliaIllustration — Coward in 1972
Panas SaksahanskyPerson · Film memorabiliaPanas Karpovych Tobilevych (– 17 September 1940), better known by the pseudonym of Panas Saksahansky, was a Ukrainian theatre actor, playwright and translator.
Renato SimoniPerson · Film memorabiliaIllustration — Renato Simoni and Emma Gramatica, 1930 ca.
Richard CarlePerson · Music memorabiliaRichard Carle (born Charles Nicholas Carleton; July 7, 1871 – June 28, 1941) was an American stage and film actor as well as a playwright, lyricist, and stage director.
Rodolphe SalisArtist · PaintingsConstant Maximin Rodolphe Salis (French pronunciation: [sali]; 29 May 1851 – 20 March 1897) was a French theatre director who was the creator, host and owner of the Le Chat Noir ('The Black…
Rouben MamoulianPerson · Film memorabiliaRouben Zachary Mamoulian (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theater director.
Sacha GuitryPerson · Film memorabiliaAlexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (lang; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre.
Tod BrowningPerson · Film memorabiliaTod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and…
Vladimir GardinPerson · Film memorabiliaVladimir Rostislavovich Gardin 28 May 1965, born Blagonravov) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema.
Walter HampdenPerson · Film memorabiliaWalter Hampden Dougherty (June 30, 1879 – June 11, 1955), known professionally as Walter Hampden, was an American actor and theatre manager.
William FavershamPerson · Film memorabiliaWilliam Faversham (12 February 1868 – 7 April 1940) was an English stage and film actor, manager, and producer.
William GillettePerson · Film memorabiliaWilliam Hooker Gillette (July 24, 1853 – April 29, 1937) was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Yury AnnenkovDesigner · Modern designYury Pavlovich Annenkov (also known as Georges Annenkov; – 12 July 1974), was a Russian avant-garde draughtsman and painter mostly known for his book illustrations and portraits.

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