Louis Mann (20 April 1865 – 15 February 1931) was an American theatre actor and sometime director, who in his later life made a few appearances in motion pictures. He was married to actress and playwright Clara Lipman.

History

Mann was born in New York City in 1865 to Daniel and Caroline Mann, and made his first theatrical appearances as a child actor, mainly in German-language theatricals. In 1896 he appeared in the

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on Broadway, in the George Dance and

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production '' The Girl from Paris''. He played Hans Nix to Clara Lipman's Estelle Cookoo in the 1897 Morton-Kerker musical comedy '' The Telephone Girl'', and in 1899, the two appeared in the original run of the farce ''The Girl in the Barracks''. Mann and Lipman took the leads, and were well received. Mann continued appearing in original stage comedies, and in 1903 produced his own Broadway production, Charles Nirdlinger's ''The Consul'' at the Princess Theatre on 29th Street. The play had a short run, and in the later half of 1903, Mann appeared in Weber and

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low comedy musical '' Whoop-Dee-Doo''. LouisMannCheater

In 1906, Mann appeared in his wife's play ''Julie Bonbon'', which opened at Lew M. Field Theatre, New York. He appeared in all five of his wife's works, staging her final piece ''Nature's Nobleman''. By 1914, Mann appeared in his first

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, Giles Warren's ''Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play''. In 1918 Mann appeared in his most notable role, that of Karl Pfeifer, in

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's stage play '' Friendly Enemies''. His most notable film role was '' The Sins of the Children'' (1930) opposite Robert Montgomery and

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. His brothers were also in show business: Sam Mann was a comic actor and

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was a theatrical composer and songwriter.

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* * 1865 births 1931 deaths Male actors from New York (state) American male film actors American Jews 19th-century American male actors American male stage actors 20th-century American male actors Jewish American male actors {{US-film-actor-1860s-stub