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Johnston Forbes-Robertson: English actor (1853–1937).
Born in London (died at age 84).
Biography
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of the actress Gertrude Elliott. Considered by some the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time, he disliked acting and believed throughout his career that he was temperamentally unsuited to it.
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