Frank Egan

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Frank Egan (* 19th century ; † 1927 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor, theater teacher and director.

Life

Frank Egan worked as an actor in the Midwest around the turn of the century. He founded his first acting school in Seattle in 1901 . Less than a decade later, he moved to Los Angeles. In 1913 he had a small theater built there with around 400 seats. At that time he had around 300 students in his Egan School of Music and Drama, who were taught in classes with a maximum of twenty participants. Egan considered a training period of at least one, more likely a year and a half, to be necessary. In his opinion, the ideal age to start training as an actor was four years. He also thought the climate in Los Angeles was as fertile as that in Italy, and told the Los Angeles Herald that he believed the city could compete with anyone else in the competition to put successful actors on the stage. Egan wrote A One Word Play by One Author , which was often played by Laurette Taylor .

His students included Helen Barham , Ann Andrews and Olga Gray , who later also played often in his Little Theater. In 1922, she directed Eloise Bibb Thompson's play Africans in Egan's theater , which - for the first time in a Los Angeles theater - focused on African-Americans. On March 16, 1927, the Daily News from New York reported that Egan had been hit by a blow at his home. A little later he died.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric L. Flom: Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle. McFarland, 2009, ISBN 978-0-786-43908-9 , p. 275 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Los Angeles to Be Great Drama Center , in: Los Angeles Herald , Vol.XXXIX, No. 115, February 12, 1913, p. 7 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Lynn Kear: Laurette Taylor, American Stage Legend. McFarland, 2014, ISBN 978-0-786-46193-6 , p. 246 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ Eric L. Flom: Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle. McFarland, 2009, ISBN 978-0-786-43908-9 , p. 159 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. ↑ John Crosse, RM Schindler, Edward Weston, Anna Zacsek, Lloyd Wright, Lawrence Tibbett, Reginald Pole, Beatrice Wood and Their Dramatic Circles , October 4, 2016 at socalarchhistory.blogspot.com
  6. ↑ Aberjhani: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Infobase Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-438-13017-0 , p. 327 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  7. ^ Frank Egan, Actor, at Death's Door , in: Daily News from New York , March 16, 1927, p. 9 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Egan, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egan, Frank C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater director and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1927
Place of death los Angeles