Lionel "Lal" Brough (10 March 1836 – 8 November 1909) was a British actor and comedian.[1] After beginning a journalistic career and performing as an amateur, he became a professional actor, performing mostly in Liverpool during the mid-1860s. He established his career in London as a member of the company at the new Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, in 1867, and he soon became known for his roles in Shakespeare, contemporary comedies, and classics, especially as Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer.
In the 1870s and 1880s, Brough was one of the leading comic actors in London. Although untrained musically, he also appeared in several successful operettas in the 1880s and 1890s. He continued to contribute popular performances into the 20th century and ended his career in comedy roles with Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company.
^"Obituary. 'Lal' Brough", Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 9 November 1909, p. 5
Lionel "Lal" Brough (10 March 1836 – 8 November 1909) was a British actor and comedian. After beginning a journalistic career and performing as an amateur...
farces of the 1920s and early 1930s. The daughter of a well-known actor, LionelBrough, with a long theatrical family tradition, she became a professional...
All Creatures Great and Small (1988) Television series...1 episode (LionelBrough) Stay Lucky (1989) Television series...2 episodes (2nd Warden) Chimera...
immediately successful. In the nineteenth century, actor and comedian LionelBrough debuted as Tony Lumpkin in 1869 and continued to play the character...
the mid-nineteenth century, where it was being played by the likes of LionelBrough. She Stoops to Conquer was chosen as the play to relaunch the Georgian...
Queen's Theatre, where he acted with Charles Wyndham, J. L. Toole, LionelBrough, John Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Ellen Terry and Nellie Farren...
was dropped within three years. He assembled a strong team, including LionelBrough as stage director and Auguste van Biene as musical director. The theatre...
months later at the Queen's Theatre, starring LionelBrough. There she also played Mrs Corney to Brough's Bumble in The Gnome King, Mrs Spriggins in Ixion...
productions. The original cast included Geraldine Ulmar, Frank Wyatt, LionelBrough, Eva Moore and Furneaux Cook. The American cast included Hayden Coffin...
parents gave him the middle name Brough (pronounced /ˈbrʌf/ BRUF) after his godfather, comedic Shakespearean actor LionelBrough. As a child, Marshall was brought...
writer William Brough. Fanny Brough's father was also the brother of the science writer John Cargill Brough and actor-comedian LionelBrough, a cousin to...
the Gaiety Theatre, London, on 4 December 1884 with a cast starring LionelBrough and Lydia Thompson. The idea of turning The Wedding March into an opera...
Faust in Mefistofele (1880) with Constance Loseby as Marguerite and LionelBrough as Valentine. In addition, he played some leading roles in musical theatre...
The other was in The Wicked World, along with George Alexander and LionelBrough. In September of that year, after the Mikado revival's run ended, she...
Toole's company and such contemporary stars as Rutland Barrington, LionelBrough, Arthur Cecil, Nellie Farren, George Grossmith, Henry Irving and Ellen...
Lionel Alfred William Atwill (1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English and American stage and screen actor. He began his acting career at the Garrick...
writers William and Robert, and actor-comedian Lionel. In the aftermath of the 1839 Newport Rising, Brough's father, who was briefly detained by the rioters...
Their sons, William, Robert, John and Lionel, would all find success in the literary or performing arts. Brough relocated to Pontypool, Monmouthshire...
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