J. C. Buckstone

John Copeland Buckstone (9 September 1859 – 24 September 1924) was an English stage and film actor of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, who was most famous for his 1901 stage play Scrooge, which was the basis for the first film version of A Christmas Carol in the same year.

[citation needed] He appeared as Careless in School For Scandal at Theatre Royal, Dundee in 1877, alongside William Henry Chippendale (as Sir Peter Teazel), Caroline Hill (as Lady Teazel), Buckstone's sister Lucy (as Maria) and his father (as Sir Benjamin Backbite).

[2] Buckstone appeared in The Silver King at the Princess's Theatre, London, in 1882,[3] He was in The Silver King at Wallack's Theatre in New York City in 1883 and also performed for Wallack in Victor Durand in 1885.

[citation needed] He also appeared in The Admirable Crichton with H. B. Irving in 1902 at the Duke of York's Theatre,[4][5] and The Adventures of Lady Ursula, Anthony Hope's 1898 play.

[citation needed] Buckstone's popular 1901 play Scrooge was quickly adapted by R.W.