Louis Calvert
Louis James Calvert (25 November 1859 – 18 July 1923) was a British stage and early film actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and an actor-manager. He is perhaps best remembered today for having created roles in plays by George Bernard Shaw and for appearing in ''King John (1899 film), King John'' (1899), the earliest known example of any film based on William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Early life Calvert was born in Manchester, Lancashire one of eight children, and the third son, of the actors Charles Alexander Calvert and his wife Adelaide Calvert (baptised April 1836 - died 20 September 1921).Richard Foulkes, ‘Calvert, Charles Alexander (1828–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200accessed 8 May 2017/ref> He was educated privately in Manchester and in Germany. Although actively discouraged by his parents from taking up acting as a career, Louis Calvert made his theatrical debut in Colony of Nata ...
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