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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.
She followed him to London where they eventually married on 17 May 1815, soon after his 19th birthday. Their first child, Amelia Portia Adelaide Booth, was born 4 months, 2 weeks and 4 days later, on 5 October 1815, but died 7 July 1816. Their only child to survive infancy was Richard Junius Booth (1819–1868). [4]
Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (1821–1883) was married to Agnes Booth. Junius Jr. never achieved the same fame as his brothers, but his third wife Agnes was popular. Their son Sydney Barton Booth (1877–1937) was an actor well into the era of modern film [5] Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893) came to be the foremost American Shakespearean actor of ...
Richard Burton as Edwin Booth in Prince of Players. Edwin "Ned" Booth is the son of the noted thespian Junius Brutus Booth and the older brother of another actor, John Wilkes Booth. Beginning In 1848, as a boy, and into early manhood, he travels with and assists Junius, who is often drunk and seems at times on the brink of madness. Several ...
Booth ignored an invitation to visit Lincoln between acts. [56] Left to right: Booth with brothers Edwin and Junius Jr. in Julius Caesar. On November 25, 1864, Booth performed for the only time with his brothers Edwin and Junius in a single engagement production of Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. [57]
Junius Blaesus (died 31), Roman army commander and proconsul of Africa; Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), English actor and father of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth; Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (1821–1883), American actor and theatre manager; son of Junius Booth; Junius Henri Browne (1833-1902), American journalist and Civil War ...
Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (1821-1883), Edwin Booth, and John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), three sons of Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852), one of America's great acting tragedians, staged a benefit performance of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to raise funds to commission a sculpted bronze statue of the playwright by artist/sculptor John Quincy ...
Booth's Theatre was a theatre in New York built by actor Edwin Booth. Located on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue , Booth's Theatre opened on February 3, 1869. The theatre featured a grand vestibule with Italian marble floors and a large statue of Edwin Booth's father, the Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth , by the ...