Mr HA Saintsbury

H. A. Saintsbury [ Harry Arthur Saintsbury ] 1869 – 1939
actor & playwright [ Jay Nibb ]

Opera Comique 1887

Miss Mary Austin’s ‘ Passions Power ‘ 1894

Appeared in Cymbeline with Irving & Terry from 22 Sept 1896 to 27 Jan 1897

In 1903 he took the thirteen year old Charlie Chaplin under his wing.

Played Sherlock Holmes more than a thousand times onstage and once in a film
of 1916, now lost.

He acted with Irving, wrote a book about him and was an authority on him.

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