Leonard Sickert

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Leonard Johannes Sickert (* in the spring of 1873 in London ; † in the summer of 1945 in Hammersmith , London) was a British actor and singer from the Sickert family.

Life

Sickert was born in London in the second quarter of 1873. He performed on several London stages in the 1920s. He played at London's St. James's Theater alongside Claude Rains in 1919/1920 in The Living Body of Lev Tolstoy and in 1920 in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare .

In 1928 he played in the Theater Royal Haymarket in Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare.

From around 1900 Sickert was also active as a singer of German and Italian songs. As a baritone he made several guest appearances in Bexhill-on-Sea . In 1903 he performed with the mezzo-soprano Edith Clegg .

Sickert died in the third quarter of 1945 in Hammersmith, London.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonard J. Sickert on ancestry.co.uk
  2. ↑ Leonard Sickert ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on findmypast.co.uk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / search.findmypast.co.uk
  3. ^ David J. Skal, Jessica Rains: Claude Rains. To actor's voice. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2008, ISBN 978-0-8131-2432-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ David J. Skal, Jessica Rains: Claude Rains. To actor's voice. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2008, ISBN 978-0-8131-2432-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ JP Wearing: The London Stage 1920–1929. A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. 2nd Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2014, ISBN 978-0-8108-9301-6 , p. 31 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ Evelyn Sharp: Unfinished Adventure. Selected Reminiscences from an Englishwoman's Life. Lane, London 1933 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  7. ↑ Entries on genesreunited.co.uk
  8. ↑ Stephen Banfield: Sensibility and English Song. Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-37944-X , pp. 489f. ( P. 489 , p. 490 ).
personal data
SURNAME Sickert, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sickert, Leonard Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Hammersmith , London