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actor-manager

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The designation for a leading actor who is also the manager of a theater or repertory troupe. In the French theater the tradition was established by Molière, who in addition to acting and managing his troupe, was also its chief playwright.

In the English and American theater, the tradition of the actor who also served as director and producer was dominant from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th. Among the most celebrated actor-managers were David Garrick in the 18th century, Henry Irving and, in America, Edwin Booth in the 19th. Among fictional actor-managers, the genial Mr. Crummles, in Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby (1839) is memorable.

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