Louis Calvert

Although actively discouraged by his parents from taking up acting as a career, Louis Calvert made his theatrical debut in Natal in South Africa in 1878 before moving on to appear in Australia and then returning to Great Britain in 1880.

During the 1880s he trained at Sarah Thorne's School of Acting at Margate, Kent, and went on to appear with Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in London and toured with Lillie Langtry in the United States.

[1] He played Mark Antony to Frank Benson's Julius Caesar, and for the Manchester Committee of the Independent Theatre Society he staged and produced an Elizabethan-style version of Richard II in 1895.

"[6] In 1904 Calvert created the role of Tom Broadbent in George Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island at the Royal Court Theatre under the management of J.E.

Louis Calvert married twice: first to the actress Rose Roberts (born Rosina Matilda Ralph (1844-1915)) at St Martin in the Fields on 18 April 1886.

Louis Calvert as Pistol in Henry V
Calvert as Andrew Undershaft (left) and Harley Granville-Barker (right) as Adolphus Cusins in Major Barbara (1905)
Richard Bennett (left) and Louis Calvert (right) in the English adaptation of Leonid Andreyev 's He Who Gets Slapped (1922)