Frederick Kerr

Frederick Kerr was an English actor who appeared on stage in both London and New York and in British and American films he also worked as a major theatrical manager in London.

Frederick Kerr was born Frederick Grinham Keen was born onOctober 1858, in London. As a youth just out of Cambridge, he went to New York City around 1880 and worked as a sketch artist, when sheer chance turned him into an actor. He was living in a boarding house on 7th Avenue, where a number of theatrical people also lived . Osmond Tearle, an actor living there, heard from his own producer that an Englishman was needed for a production of The School for Scandal. Tearle recruited Frederick, who got the part in January 1882 . Kerr appeared in several more plays in New York City that year, but left for Britain to appear in a London play in December 1882. Over the next fifty years, he travelled back and forth across the Atlantic several times for theatrical work both in New York City and in London.

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