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Its most known members were brothers Edwin Booth, one of the leading actors of his day, and John Wilkes Booth, also a fellow actor most remembered for assassinating Abraham Lincoln. The patriarch, Junius Brutus Booth , was a London -born lawyer's son who eventually became an actor after he attended a production of Othello at the Covent Garden ...
Before his brother assassinated Lincoln, Edwin had appeared with his two brothers, John Wilkes and Junius Brutus Booth Jr., in Julius Caesar in 1864. [7] John Wilkes played Marc Antony, Edwin played Brutus, and Junius played Cassius. [8] It was a benefit performance, and the only time that the three brothers appeared together on the same stage. [9]
John Wilkes Booth was played by John Derek in the film Prince of Players (1955), a biography of Edwin Booth (played by Richard Burton). [184] Bradford Dillman played Booth in the 1977 film The Lincoln Conspiracy, based on the book with the same name speculating that Booth was the instrument of men in the government planning Lincoln's murder.
He was the father of actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. His other children included Edwin Booth, one of the foremost tragedians of the mid-to-late 19th century, Junius Brutus Booth Jr., an actor and theatre manager, and Asia Booth Clarke, a poet and writer.
However, Booth never lived in Tudor Hall, because he died before it was completed. His son Edwin Booth lived there only briefly on his return from California before he moved the family back into Baltimore. But his other son, John Wilkes Booth, lived there with his mother, brother Joseph, and two sisters from December 1852 through most of 1856.
Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (December 22, 1821 – September 17, 1883) [1] was an American actor and theatre manager. As a member of the illustrious Booth family of actors, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was overshadowed by his father Junius Sr. and brothers Edwin and John Wilkes (the assassin of Abraham Lincoln) and later by his wife Agnes, a successful actress.
Edwin Booth (1833–1893), American actor, brother of John Wilkes Booth; Edwin Henry Booth (1828–1899), English founder of Booths supermarkets; Edwin J. Booth (born 1955), English businessman, chair of Booths, great-great-grandson of Edwin H. Edwina Booth (1904–1991), American actress born Josephine Woodruff
In the statement, Spangler describes his relationship with John Wilkes Booth and denies having aided Booth in any manner whatsoever. [24] Spangler's statement reads in part: I was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and am about forty-three years of age, I am a house carpenter by trade, and became acquainted with J. Wilkes Booth when a boy.