Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach

male, deceased (1880)
Jewish, comic opera, Théâtre Français, Les Contes de Hoffmann, la vie parisienne, Théâtre de la Gaîté…musical theater, musicalcomedy
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 - 5 October 1880) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta...
George M. Cohan

George M. Cohan

male, deceased (1942)
musician, Musical theatre composer, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, Lyricist, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Vaudeville performer…musicalcomedy
George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 - November 5, 1942) was a United States entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer,...
P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

male, deceased (1975)
Mulliner, Lord Emsworth, Bertie Wooster, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Old Alleynian, World War II civilian prisoner…musicalcomedy, musical comedies, musical theater
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 - February 14, 1975) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more...
Joe E. Brown

Joe E. Brown

male, deceased (1973)
Palm Springs, stationmaster, Around the World in Eighty Days, Around the World in 80 Days, Vaudeville performer, Cameo appearance…musicalcomedy
Joseph Evans Brown was an actor and comedian from Holgate, Ohio. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five...
Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand

male, deceased (1918)
Les Romanesques, died 2.12.1918, L'Aiglon 1900, la princesse lointaine 1895, DIED IN PARIS, CHANTECLER…musical theater, musicalcomedy
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play "Cyrano d...
Tammy Grimes

Tammy Grimes

female, 75 years old
titanic, rms titanic, film actor, from Lynn, Massachusetts, musicalcomedy, Stratford Festival of Canada…Musical theatre actor
Tammy Grimes (born January 30 1934) is an award-winning actress and singer. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, she attended high school at the then-all...
Bert Kalmar

Bert Kalmar

male, deceased (1947)
Vaudeville performer, buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, magician, musician, Songwriter, Jewish American…musicalcomedy
Bert Kalmar (February 10, 1884 - September 18, 1947) was an American lyricist. He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age...
Ivan Caryll

Ivan Caryll

male, deceased (1921)
American, Felix Tilkins, Musical theatre composer, composer, gilbert and sullivan, belgian…musicalcomedy
Felix Tilkins (May 12 1861-November 29 1921), better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll was a Belgian composer of musical comedy and operetta in the...

Thomas John

male
la traviata, Peabody Conservatory, concert, Opera Singer, metropolitan opera house, American…musicalcomedy
Thomas John Charles was an American baritone born in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore. After a...
Adrian Ross

Adrian Ross

male, deceased (1933)
Musical theatre lyricist, From Lewisham, gilbert and sullivan, Arthur Reed Ropes, Lyricist, English…musical comedies, musicalcomedy
Arthur Reed Ropes (December 23 1859 - September 10 1933), better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a writer of lyrics for more than 60...