Thomas Sheridan

Thomas Sheridan

male, deceased (1788)
Educator, Rhetorician, actor, elocution, Franches Chamberlaine, elocution movement
Thomas Sheridan (1719 - 1788) was an Irish stage actor, an educator, and a major proponent of the elocution movement. He received his M.A. in 1743...
Mitch Hedberg

Mitch Hedberg

male, deceased (2005)
from Minnesota, one-liner joke, elocution, Mitchell Hedberg, Swedish-American, American
Mitchell Lee Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian known for his stylistic elocution and routines that often consisted of a string of one-line...
Alexander Melville Bell

Alexander Melville Bell

male, deceased (1905)
Principles of Speech and Dictionary of Sounds, Lowell Institute, university of edinburgh, Inventor of writing systems, philology, pygmalion…elocution
Alexander Melville Bell (March 1, 1819-August 7, 1905), Scottish-American teacher and father of Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the...
Karima Adebibe

Karima Adebibe

female, 24 years old
model, actress, greek, Alien vs. Predator, elocution, martial arts
Karima Adebibe (born February 14, 1985 in London, England) is an English actress and model of Moroccan and of Irish/Greek descent. Formerly a sales...
Keeley Hawes

Keeley Hawes

female, 32 years old
Zoe Reynolds, Video game actor, Wives and Daughters, BBC Two, Spooks, BBC One…elocution
Keeley Hawes (born 1 January 1977 in London) is an English actress, best known for her role as Zoe Reynolds in the BBC One drama series "Spooks"...
Johnston Forbes-Robertson

Johnston Forbes-Robertson

male, deceased (1937)
Caesar and Cleopatra, Maxine Elliot, Jean Forbes-Robertson, caesar, othello, Diana Forbes-Robertson…elocution
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (born January 16, 1853, London - died November 6, 1937, St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover) was an English actor....
Francis James Child

Francis James Child

male, deceased (1896)
Harvard University, British poet, english literature, Folk-song collector, collector, Educationist…elocution
Francis James Child (February 1, 1825-September 11, 1896), was an American scholar and educationist, and collector of what came to be known as the...
Hermann Vezin

Hermann Vezin

male, deceased (1910)
Princess's Theatre, London, Theatre Producer, stage actor, writer, pupil, haymarket theatre…elocution
Hermann Vezin was an American actor, born in Philadelphia, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He went to England at York and obtained...
Richard B. Harrison

Richard B. Harrison

male, deceased (1935)
Ontario actor, Spingarn Medal winner, Canadian, Broadway, slave, actor…elocution
Richard Berry Harrison was a renowned actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer. He was featured on the cover of "TIME" magazine on March 4,...
Jean Metcalfe

Jean Metcalfe

female, deceased (2000)
Empire Service, Africe Service, Books And People, Spring, The Sweet Spring, Waterloo Station, southern railway…elocution
Jean Metcalfe was an English radio broadcaster. She was born on in Reigate, Surrey, the eldest child of Guy Vivian Metcalfe, a railway clerk with...