Lawrence Barrett (April 4, 1838 â€" March 20, 1891) was an American
stage actor.A native of Paterson, New Jersey, Barrett was born in 1838
to Mary Agnes (née Read) Barrett and tailor Thomas Barrett, Irish
immigrants who had settled in Paterson. He was raised in Detroit, and
made his first stage appearance there in 1853 as Murad in The French
Spy. In December 1856 he made his first New York appearance at the
Chambers Street theatre as Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback.In
1858 he was in the repertory company at the Boston Museum. In 1862
enlisted for the American Civil War, and was appointed a captain in
Company B of the 28th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Regiment; he served until resigning in 1863. From 1868 to 1870, with
John McCullough, he managed the California theatre, San Francisco,
where he frequently toured the interior towns with McCullough and
casts from the theater.Among his many and varied parts may be
mentioned Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Shylock, Richard III, Wolsey,
Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Richelieu, David Garrick, Hernani,
Alfred Evelyn, Lanciotto in George Henry Boker's (1823â€"1890)
Francesca da Rimini, and Janies Harebell in The Man o' Airlie.
stage actor.A native of Paterson, New Jersey, Barrett was born in 1838
to Mary Agnes (née Read) Barrett and tailor Thomas Barrett, Irish
immigrants who had settled in Paterson. He was raised in Detroit, and
made his first stage appearance there in 1853 as Murad in The French
Spy. In December 1856 he made his first New York appearance at the
Chambers Street theatre as Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback.In
1858 he was in the repertory company at the Boston Museum. In 1862
enlisted for the American Civil War, and was appointed a captain in
Company B of the 28th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Regiment; he served until resigning in 1863. From 1868 to 1870, with
John McCullough, he managed the California theatre, San Francisco,
where he frequently toured the interior towns with McCullough and
casts from the theater.Among his many and varied parts may be
mentioned Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Shylock, Richard III, Wolsey,
Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Richelieu, David Garrick, Hernani,
Alfred Evelyn, Lanciotto in George Henry Boker's (1823â€"1890)
Francesca da Rimini, and Janies Harebell in The Man o' Airlie.
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