George Kunkel (actor, born 1866)
[13][14] His repertoire with the company that year included the roles of Beppo in Fra Diavolo[13] and Hackenback, magistrate of Trautenfeld, in Carl Millöcker's The Black Hussar.
[15] He continued to portray leading comic roles with the company on tour in 1897 to cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Winnipeg, Denver, Dallas, and Olympia, Washington;[16] starring in performances of Scott Marble and Richard Stahl's Said Pasha and Edmond Audran's La mascotte.
With that troupe he starred in several comedic plays, among them Charles Reade's Nance Oldfield,[21] and a stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Edith's Burgler.
[26] His repertoire with that company included the title role in J. Cheever Goodwin's Wang which he first performed on tour to the Metropolitan Opera House in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
[36] His repertoire with that company included the title role in the farce The Private Secretary[37] and Bean in William Gillette's drama Held by the Enemy.
[38] Kunkel left Hawaii in December 1903 to return to New Zealand where he joined the theatre company Sanford's American Players (SAP).
[39] With that company he portrayed the blackface role of Nimrod in Scott Marble's The Sidewalks of New York,[40] Simon Legree in Uncle Tom's Cabin,[41] and was the villain Mark Sarley in Bland Holt's melodrama The Power of Gold.
[43] He was still working in Australia as late as June 1905 performing the role of the villain McClosky in Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne.
[50] An August 12, 1906, newspaper report in the Oakland Tribune states that he spent eight weeks performing with the SFOC on tour to the Grand Opera House in Seattle in the summer of 1906.
Other works he performed with the SFOC included Ludwig Engländer's The Strollers (1907 and 1909),[52][53] Harry Lawson Heartz and Richard Carle's The Tenderfoot (1907, as Professor Pettibone),[54] De Koven's Robin Hood (1907, as Friar Tuck),[55] Julian Edwards and Stanislaus Stange's Dolly Varden (1907, as Jack Fairfax)[56] Victor Herbert's The Singing Girl (1907),[57] Herbert's The Idol's Eye (1907, as Jaamie McSnuffy)[58] Bryceson Treharne's The Toymaker (1907, as Johannus Guggenheimer, aka "The Toymaker"),[59] Raymond Hubbell's Fantana (1907 and 1908),[60][61] Henry Grattan Donnelly and Fred Miller's Ships Ahoy!
[64] Roles he performed with that company on a national tour during that year included Cheops and King Ptolemy in The Wizard of the Nile,[65][66][67] Friar Tuck in Robin Hood,[64] Sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S.
[71] In December 1911 he joined the group of resident actors at the Orpheum Theatre in Cincinnati, making his debut with the company as Sergeant Keller in Augustus Thomas's drama Arizona.
[1] He portrayed the mountaineer Robert Maitland in Vitagraph Studios's The Chalice of Courage (1915);[80] notably the first film in the history of cinema to depict an assisted suicide.
[85] Herbert's death certificate lists George Kunkel as his father and Grace Davis as his mother, and that he was born in Pennsylvania on December 2, 1890, and died on March 1, 1943, in Philadelphia.
