Richard Mansfield saw him play Gryphon in Alice in Wonderland two years later and took him to America where he first appeared in 1889 at Palmer's Theatre.
He portrayed John Hammond in the 1918 silent film My Wife.
Druce was appearing in The Admirable Crichton in March 1931 when he became ill.
He died of pneumonia in New York on April 6, 1931, survived by his wife and two children.
[1][2] Actress Edith Ogilby Berg was previously married to Druce; they divorced in 1905.