H. Reeves-Smith
Actor, Film actor
1862 – 1938
Who was H. Reeves-Smith?
Harry Reeves-Smith better known as H. Reeves-Smith was an English born stage actor who achieved success in Broadway productions at the turn of the twentieth century. His father was G. Reeves-Smith, a manager of the Brighton Aquarium. Harry made his first appearance on stage in 1978 at Halifax in Jane Shore. He came to the U.S. in 1887 and toured with John Sleeper Clarke. In the U.S. he toured with actresses Henrietta Crosman and Grace George. He is mainly remembered for appearing in several hit plays. Ethel Barrymore became a stage star in Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines but Reeves-Smith character Robert Jinks is the title of the play. In 1910 he appeared in another play with Barrymore, Mid-Channel, about a feuding couple. In 1912 he was opposite Laurette Taylor in her huge success Peg o' My Heart. In The Unchastened Woman the star was Emily Stevens. His last Broadway part was as Johan Strauss in The Great Waltz in 1935.
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- Born
- May 17, 1862
Scarborough, North Yorkshire - Also known as
- Harry Reeves-Smith
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 29, 1938
Ewell
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on July 23, 2013
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