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Sir Francis Robert Benson (4 November 1858
– 31 December 1939), commonly known as Frank
Benson or F. R. Benson, was a
British actor-manager. He founded his own company
in 1883 and produced all but two of Shakespeare´s plays.
Biography
Born in Tunbridge Wells, he was educated
at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and at the
university was distinguished both as an athlete (winning the
Inter-university three miles) and as an amateur actor. In the
latter respect he was notable for producing at Oxford the first
performance of a Greek play, the Agamemnon, in which many Oxford men
who afterwards became famous in other fields took part.
On leaving Oxford, Benson took to the professional stage, and made
his first appearance at the Lyceum, under Henry Irving, in Romeo and Juliet, as Paris, in
1882. In the next year he went into managership with a company of
his own, taken over from Walter Bentley, and from this
time he became gradually more and more prominent, both as an actor
of leading parts himself and as the organizer of practically the
only modern repertory company touring through the
provinces.
A photograph of Frank Robert Benson as Petruchio from a 1901
performance of
The Taming of the Shrew
Benson´s chief successes were gained out of London for some years,
but in 1890 he had a season in London at the Globe and in 1900 at the Lyceum, and
in later years he was seen with his repertoire at the
Coronet.[1]
His company included from time to time many actors and actresses
who, having trained under him, became prominent on their own
account, and both by his organization of this regular company and
by his foundation of a dramatic school of acting in 1901, Benson
exercised a most important influence on the contemporary stage.
From the first he devoted himself largely to the production
of Shakespeare´s plays, reviving many which
had not been acted for generations, and his services to the cause
of Shakespeare can hardly be overestimated. From 1886 to 1916 (with
a few gaps) he managed the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean
Festival.
His romantic and intellectual powers as an actor, combined with his
athletic and picturesque bearing and fine elocution, were
conspicuously shown in his own impersonations, most remarkable
among which were his Hamlet (in 1900 he produced this play
without cuts in London), his Coriolanus, his Richard II,
his Lear and hisPetruchio.
Richard
III (1911) is one of his only surviving film
performances. He both starred in the lead role and directed the
production, made by the Co-operative
Cinematograph Co.
Benson was knighted following a performance
of Julius
Caesar at Drury Lane Theatre in
1916.
Family
He was the son of William Benson of Alresford, Hants, and was born at Tunbridge Wells. In 1886 he
married Gertrude
Constance Cockburn (Featherstonhaugh), who acted in his
company and continued to play leading parts with him.
He came of a talented family, his elder brother, W. A. S.
Benson, becoming well known in the world of art as one of the
pioneers in the revival of English industrial craftsmanship,
especially in the field of the metallic arts; and his younger
brother, Godfrey Benson,
being a Liberal politician. A distant branch of
the family in Pittsburgh, USA produced a very talented
singer-songwriter by the name of George Benson.
Filmography
- Julius
Caesar (1911) *short
- The Taming of the
Shrew (1911) *short
- Richard III (1911)
(*short, not feature)
- MacBeth (1911)
*short
- Becket (1923)
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