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Sir Charles Wyndham (
23 March 1837 –
1919),
English actor, was born
Charles Culverwell in
Liverpool, the son of a doctor. He was educated abroad, at
King's College London and at the College of Surgeons and the Peter Street Anatomical School,
Dublin. His taste for the stage - he'd taken part in amateur drama - was too strong for him to take up either the clerical or the medical career suggested for him, and early in 1862 he made a first appearance in
London as an actor, appearing with
Ellen Terry.
Further stage work wasn't forthcoming and he returned to medicine. There was a shortage of surgeons in the
United States, which was in the throes of the
Civil War, and he volunteered to became brigade surgeon in the
Federal army. He served at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. On 17 November 1864 he resigned his contract with the Army to return to the stage. In later years he was to appear in America: between 1870-1872 in his own
Wyndham Comedy Company; and in later tours between 1882 and 1909. On one occasion he appeared in
New York with
John Wilkes Booth.
Returning to
England, his career blossomed. Although he was occasionally to play
Shakespeare, his work mostly consisted of the popular melodramas and comedies of the time. He played at
Manchester and Dublin in
Her Ladyship's Guardian, his own adaptation of
Edward B. Hamley's novel
Lady Lee's Widowhood. He reappeared in London in 1866 as Sir Arthur Lascelles in Morion's
All that Glitters isn't Gold, but his great success at that time was in F. C. Burnand's burlesque of
Black-eyed Susan, as Hatchett, "with dance." This brought him to the erstwhile St James's Theatre, where he played with
Henry Irving in
Idalia; then with
Ellen Terry in Charles Reade's
Double Marriage, and Tom Taylor's
Still Waters Run Deep.
As Charles Surface, his best part for many years, and in a breezy three-act farce,
Pink Dominoes, by James Albery, and in
Brighton, an anglicized version of
Saratoga by Bronson Howard (1842-1908), who married his sister, he added greatly to his popularity both at home and abroad. In 1876 he took control of the
Criterion Theatre. Here he produced a long succession of plays, in which he took the leading part, notably a number of old English
comedies, and in such modern plays as
The Liars,
The Case of Rebellious Susan and others by
Henry Arthur Jones; and he became famous for his acting in
David Garrick. In 1899 he opened his new theatre, called
Wyndham's. He was
knighted in 1902. From 1885 onwards his leading actress was Miss Mary Moore (Mrs. Albery), who became his partner in the proprietorship of the Criterion and Wyndham's theatres, and of his New Theatre, opened in 1903; and her delightful acting in comedy made their long association memorable on the London stage. In
1916 he married Miss Mary Moore (widow of James Albery), who for 30 years had been his leading lady, and had also been associated with him as a manager.
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- Florence T. Shore, Sir Charles Wyndham (New York, 1908)
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