Francis Leon

Francis Leon

male
Francis Leon was a blackface minstrel performer best known for his work as a female impersonator. He was largely responsible for making the prima...
George L. Fox

George L. Fox

male, deceased (1877)
George L. Fox (1825-77) was an American comedian, born in Boston. He made his first appearance in the Tremont Street Theatre in that city at the...
Andrew Halliday

Andrew Halliday

male, deceased (1877)
Andrew Halliday Duff (1830 - April 10, 1877), British journalist and dramatist, was born at Marnoch, Banffshire. He was educated at Marischal...
Lorenzo Lippi

Lorenzo Lippi

male, deceased (1664)
Lorenzo Lippi (1606, Florence - 1664, Florence) was an Italian painter and poet. He studied painting under Matteo Rosselli. Both Baldassare...
Harry Steppe

Harry Steppe

male, deceased (1934)
Harry Steppe was a Jewish-American actor, comedian and hobo clown who worked in Vaudeville and Burlesque. Harry coined such terms as "Razzle...
Sam Bernard

Sam Bernard

male, deceased (1927)
Sam Bernard (June 5 1863 in Birmingham, England - May 16 1927) was a renowned stage, film and vaudeville star. He also performed comic opera and...
Hunter Hancock

Hunter Hancock

male, deceased (2004)
Hunter Hancock (1916 - August 4 2004) was a disc jockey regarded as the first in the Western United States to play rhythm and blues records on the...

François Billetdoux

male, deceased (1991)
François Billetdoux was a French dramatic author and novelist. His works describe the world with a fierce humor of a somewhat burlesque style, w...
Shirley Jean Rickert

Shirley Jean Rickert

female
Shirley Jean Rickert was an American child actor who was briefly the "blond girl" for the "Our Gang" series in 1931, during the Roach talkie...

Hinda Wassau

female, 97 years old
Hinda Wassau (b. 1912) was a former chorus girl who became a star of striptease and burlesque. She was from Minneapolis, Minnesota.