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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.
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 ...
In 1852, Booth was involved in a tour of California with his sons Edwin and Junius Jr., performing in San Francisco and Sacramento, where torrential rains not only closed the theatres, but also seriously depleted food supplies. Inflation skyrocketed, and the Booths returned to San Francisco without having made a penny.
Booth's parents were noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress, Mary Ann Holmes, who moved to the United States from England in June 1821. [4] They purchased a 150-acre (61 ha) farm near Bel Air, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children. [5]
Asia Frigga Booth was the eighth in the family of ten children born to Junius Brutus Booth and his wife Mary Ann Holmes. Her famous brothers were Junius Brutus Booth Jr., Edwin Thomas Booth, and John Wilkes Booth (who later became the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) .
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Carl Booth Jr., then 17 and now 32, had been in prison since 2010 for the September 2008 fatal shooting of Norman 'Pooh' Griffith in Belle Glade. Carl Booth Jr., then 17 and now 32, had been in ...
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 ...