Charles Lickfold Warner

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Contributor Charles Lickfold Warner
Gender Male
Nationality English
Date of Birth 10 October 1846
Date of Death 12 February 1909
Functions Actor, Actor-Manager
Notes He was born in Kensington. Father of H B Warner, Hollywood actor from 1923-1956 and of Miss Grace Warner. He first appeared on stage before Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1862, as a page in “Richelieu”. In 1864 he made his first appearance in London as Benvolio in “Romeo and Juliet”. After many years of high class engagements, he toured Australia with phenomenal success. He will be remembered particularly in Wellington for his brilliantly realistic acting in “Drink”. He returned to London, then proceeded to America, where he appeared in many leading vaudeville theatres. He committed suicide by hanging himself in his hotel room in New York at the age of 63.
Events

Actor-Manager

Actor

Charles Reade - Adaptor, Playwright

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Playwright

James Henry Darnley - Playwright

John Brunton - Scenic Artist

Emma Chambers - Actor

Olly Deering - Actor

Violet Ellicott - Actor

George Manville Fenn - Playwright

  • The Barrister, Princess Theatre (1886- ), Melbourne, VIC, 5 May 1888

Herbert Flemming - Actor

George Goodman - Administrator

H B Hambro - Actor

Samuel Lazar - Lessee

Albert Marsh - Actor

Isabel Morris - Actor

J A Patterson - Assistant Stage Manager

George Manville Penn - Playwright

Henry Pettitt - Playwright

Alfred Phillips - Actor

William Shakespeare - Playwright

  • Hamlet, Princess Theatre (1886- ), Melbourne, VIC, 26 May 1888

Richard Stewart - Actor

Alfred Tennyson - Poet

Henry H Vincent - General Manager

Ada Ward - Actor

Gracie Warner - Actor

Williamson, Garner and Musgrove

Charles Warner's Dramatic Company
Data Set AusStage
Contributor Identifier 464014