Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.
Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous programming and lavish productions, and starring in many of its productions. In 1899, he helped fund the rebuilding, and became manager, of His Majesty's Theatre. Again, he promoted a mix of Shakespeare and classic plays with new works and adaptations of popular novels, giving them spectacular productions in this large house, and often playing leading roles. His wife, actress Helen Maud Holt, often played opposite him and assisted him with management of the theatres.
Although Tree was regarded as a versatile and skilled actor, particularly in character roles, by his later years his technique was seen as mannered and old-fashioned. He founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 and was knighted for his contributions to theatre in 1909. His famous family includes his siblings, explorer Julius Beerbohm, author Constance Beerbohm and half-brother caricaturist Max Beerbohm. His daughters were Viola, an actress, Felicity, a socialite and Iris, a poet. His illegitimate children included film director Carol Reed. He was a grandfather of the actor Oliver Reed.
and 21 Related for: Herbert Beerbohm Tree information
Sir HerbertBeerbohmTree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager. Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was...
nothing in them compatible with Judaism. Beerbohm was close to four half-siblings, one of whom, HerbertBeerbohmTree, was already a renowned stage actor when...
Mrs BeerbohmTree and later Lady Tree, was an English actress. She was the wife of the actor Sir HerbertBeerbohmTree and the mother of Viola Tree, Felicity...
Viola Tree (17 July 1884 – 15 November 1938) was an English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor HerbertBeerbohmTree, she made...
native South African 2 HerbertBeerbohmTree married actress Helen Maud Holt (1858-1937) in 1882. Their children were: Viola Tree (1884–1938) married drama...
Lady Beerbohm (1894–1958), interpreter and the secretary, literary executor Felicity BeerbohmTree, Lady Cory-Wright (1895–1978), daughter of Herbert Florence...
adventurer. Iris Tree's parents were actors Sir HerbertBeerbohmTree and Helen Maud, Lady Tree. Her sisters were actresses Felicity and Viola Tree. An aunt was...
children. Julius Beerbohm's older brother was the renowned actor-manager HerbertBeerbohmTree; his sister was author Constance Beerbohm. A younger half-brother...
daughter of the actor Sir HerbertBeerbohmTree and his wife, the actress Helen Maud Holt. She was the sister of Viola Tree and Iris Tree, and the niece of the...
oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1904 by Sir HerbertBeerbohmTree. It moved to buildings on Gower Street in 1905. It was granted a...
which he accepted a request from the actor-manager HerbertBeerbohmTree for a new play for Tree's company at the Haymarket Theatre. Wilde worked on it...
in portrayals. Svengali was first portrayed by the English actor HerbertBeerbohmTree in London and by the actor Wilton Lackaye in the United States in...
the management of Wilson Barrett and HerbertBeerbohmTree. On 18 April 1905 she married chartered accountant Herbert Guedella (1874-1940) at the Register...
origin Iris Tree, actress, poet and artists' model; daughter of HerbertBeerbohmTree Viola Tree, actress; daughter of HerbertBeerbohmTree Peter Ustinov...
The membership would later include Charles Kean, Henry Irving, HerbertBeerbohmTree, Arthur Sullivan, J. M. Barrie, Arthur Wing Pinero, Laurence Olivier...
and in the provinces for a decade, he joined the company of Sir HerbertBeerbohmTree where he remained for four years, meeting his future wife, Julia...
stars with whom he performed while he was a boy were Henry Irving, HerbertBeerbohmTree, Ellen Terry and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. His colleagues as child...
career on the London stage in 1908 at age 15, at the invitation of HerbertBeerbohmTree. An early appearance on Broadway was in The Man Who Married a Dumb...
World. His father was Denys Parsons, the grandson of the actor Sir HerbertBeerbohmTree. Denys Parsons was a scientist, a film maker, and the press officer...
Global Information