Eric Maxon

Eric Maxon (22 May 1882 – 1963) was an English stage and early film actor and member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom, for a period, he also designed the costumes.

[2] He appeared in the silent films Richard III (1911) as Henry, Earl of Richmond[4] and played Capt.

In a 1916 season at the (New Amsterdam Theatre he appeared in Henry VIII, The Merchant of Venice and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

[2] Among other plays during that period Maxon appeared in Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, All's Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, and Cymbeline.

Maxon appeared in the title role in Julius Caesar (1934),[6] and, in the 1943 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon he played Antonio in Twelfth Night, Montano in Othello, Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Duke of Exeter in Henry V, Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor, the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear, Antigonus in The Winter's Tale, and the Earl of Leicester in The Critic.