1. Otho Stuart was a British actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who specialised in performing in the plays of Shakespeare.
11 Facts About Otho Stuart
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Otho Stuart was born as Otto Stuart Andreae in 1863 in Battersea, the youngest of six children born to Emelia nee Sillem and John Charles Andreae, a German-born naturalised British subject who was a Commissioner Merchant in Indigo.
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In Benson's 1893 Stratford season Otho Stuart was Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus and Renaud in The Corsican Brothers.
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Otho Stuart co-produced The Taming of the Shrew with Oscar Asche in 1904.
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Otho Stuart, who was a famous [theatrical] manager in his day, had run into difficulties with a play at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, and he wanted a replacement so that the theatre shouldn't be dark.
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For Benson at Stratford Otho Stuart played Bassanio and Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice ; Valentine in You Never Can Tell ; and Young Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer.
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Otho Stuart was Johannes in The Sixth Commandment at the Haymarket Theatre, and one of the Thirty Handsome Young Lords in The "Mind the Gates" Girl at His Majesty's Theatre.
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Otho Stuart appeared in H B Irving's production of Hamlet at the Savoy Theatre in a cast that included Henry Baynton.
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Otho Stuart was Lord Lushington in Kultur at Home at the Strand Theatre and Bernard of Treviso in a matinee performance of The Elixir at the Vaudeville Theatre.
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Otho Stuart was Prince Sergius Abreskov in Reparation at the St James's Theatre opposite Claude Rains and Baron Revendal in The Melting Pot at the Savoy Theatre.
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Otho Stuart was a Governmentor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.