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Harry Jackson

JACKSON, HARRY (Jacobson; 1836–1885), British actor and stage manager, born in London. Jackson spent his early years in Australia, acted there and in New Zealand, and went to San Francisco in 1856. In his later years he worked in England, where he appeared in variety and melodramas, and became known as a comedian in Jewish stock character roles. During the late 1870s he was the leading comedian at Drury Lane and later became stage manager there.


Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2007 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.