Edmund Duggan

Edmund Duggan (* 1862 in Lismore ; † August 2, 1938 in Melbourne ) was an Australian actor and playwright of Irish origin.

The son of a farmer came to Australia with his family at the age of nine, attended St Patrick's College in Melbourne and then worked in a department store on Flinders Lane. With his brother Patrick , he founded the Roscians , a club where Shakespeare's works were studied and performed at charity events. At the age of 22, he decided to pursue a career as a professional actor.

He gained his first experience with the George Titheradges Company at the Gaiety Theater in Sydney and in 1890 managed the debut of his sister Eugenie in Romeo and Juliet at the Theater Royal in Melbourne. In the 1890s he toured Australia with his own group of actors, performing with actors such as Alfred Dampier and Myra Kemble and working with the company of Charles Holloway and William Anderson , who was married to his sister Eugenie.

In 1891 his melodrama The Democrat was performed in Sydney (resumption under the title Eureka Stockade in Adelaide in 1897). In 1906, Anderson produced his adaptation of Lady Audley's Secret . In 1907 he wrote The Squatter's Daughter with Bert Bailey . The play was a huge hit in Melbourne and was filmed in 1910 with the original cast. The Man from Outback (1909) was also written in u with Bailey .

Duggan's play My Mate (with the reading of texts by Adam Lindsay Gordons ) was performed at Anderson's King's Theater in 1911 . In 1912 Anderson handed the King's Theater over to Bailey with Julius Grant as manager and Duggan as artistic director. In the following years he performed with the Bailey-Grant Company in Australia and New Zealand in his own melodramas and pieces by other authors. He convinced Steel Rudd , the piece The Rudd Family to write, he played in the 1928 performance "Dad". Duggan died of heart failure in 1938.

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• Australian Dictionary of Biography - Duggan, Edmund
• Edmund Duggan in the Internet Movie Database (English)