After Macready " retired " to America, he continued to perform in the role ; in 1849, he was involved in a rivalry with American actor Edwin Forrest, whose partisans hissed Macready at Astor Place, leading to what is commonly called the Astor Place Riot.

* 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.

The Fulton Theatre was later modified by noted theatrical architect Edwin Forrest Durang, is one of only three theatres recognized as National Historic Landmarks ( the others are the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and the Goldenrod Showboat in St. Louis, Missouri ).

* Edwin Forrest as " Coriolanus " ( 1867 ), in the Actors ' Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The movie was adapted by Harry Carr, Forrest Halsey, Agnes Christine Johnston, and Edwin Justus Mayer from the novel The Divine Lady: a Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton by E. Barrington.

As a result, the blackface " Sambo " character came to supplant the " tall-tale-telling Yankee " and " frontiersman " character-types in popularity, and white actors such as Charles Mathews, George Washington Dixon, and Edwin Forrest began to build reputations as blackface performers.

* John Augustus Stone wrote the play, Metamora ; or, The Last of the Wampanoags ( 1829 ) for the notable actor Edwin Forrest as lead.

He was the illegitimate son of another famous actor, Junius Brutus Booth, an Englishman, who named Edwin after Edwin Forrest and Thomas Flynn, two of Junius ' colleagues.

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance ; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.

Edwin Forrest ( 1836 )

Edwin Forrest ( March 9, 1806 – December 12, 1872 ) was an American actor.

Daguerreotype of Edwin Forrest by Mathew Brady

Edwin Forrest home in Philadelphia

In his later years, Forrest lobbied for the rights of smaller theatres against the increasingly powerful conglomerated theatre companies, earning him the nickname " Little Man Edwin.

There his name lives on, in the Edwin Forrest Wing.

* Lawrence Barrett's Edwin Forrest ( Boston, 1881 )

* Edwin Forrest House

* Edwin Forrest School

* The Edwin Forrest Home Records, documenting the entire institutional history of the Edwin Forrest Home, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

* Edwin Forrest biography and photo gallery

Edwin Powell Hubble ( November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953 ) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.

On October 5, 1858, Booth played the part of Horatio in Hamlet, with his older brother Edwin having the title role.

He played Mark Antony and his brother Edwin had the larger role of Brutus in a performance acclaimed as " the greatest theatrical event in New York history ".

Michael Fassbender, a German-Irish actor, will play Edwin Epps, the slave's last master, while the first master-planter and Baptist preacher William Ford-will be played by British Olivier-award winning actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

The part of Humphrey was played by Edwin Duryea, an actor, singer and dancer whose human identity was never revealed.

Junius, Jr. played Cassius, Edwin played Brutus and John Wilkes played Mark Antony.

Edwin Hughes played it for President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, and Percy Grainger performed it frequently.

Prominent organists to have played the Ocean Grove Auditorium organ include Edwin H. Lemare, Pietro Yon, and Frederick Swann.

Calvin Edwin " Cal " Ripken, Jr. ( born August 24, 1960 ), nicknamed " The Ironman ", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 years in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the Baltimore Orioles ( 1981 – 2001 ).

After the production of Tennyson's The Cup and revivals of Othello ( in which Irving played Iago to Edwin Booth's title character ) and Romeo and Juliet, there began a period at the Lyceum which had a potent effect on the English stage.

Harry Edwin Heilmann ( August 3, 1894 – July 9, 1951 ), nicknamed “ Slug ,” was a Major League Baseball player who played 17 seasons with the Detroit Tigers ( 1914, 1916 – 1929 ) and Cincinnati Reds ( 1930, 1932 ).

John Wilkes played Marc Antony, Edwin played Brutus, and Junius played Cassius.

" His son, Edwin, later says of his father, “ Great minds to madness closely are allied .” From February 1817 onward, he played almost three thousand performances.

He played Othello to Edwin Booth's Iago and Cassius to his Brutus.

Meanwhile, his son-in-law, and one of Britain's most outstanding architects, Edwin Lutyens, played a major role in the creation of New Delhi.

Edwin Lee Mathews ( October 13, 1931 – February 18, 2001 ) was an American professional baseball player He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman, most notably on the Milwaukee Braves.

Edwin Donald " Duke " Snider ( September 19, 1926February 27, 2011 ), nicknamed " The Silver Fox " and " The Duke of Flatbush ", was a Major League Baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1947 – 62 ), New York Mets ( 1963 ), and San Francisco Giants ( 1964 ).

He played one more game during the tournament, raising the number of his appearances to 16, which record was then equaled a few days later by Edwin van der Sar from the Netherlands in the quarter-finals.

From Kean's time forward, many actors who have played the role — with the notable exception of Edwin Booth, who played him as a simple villain — have chosen a sympathetic approach to the character ; even Booth's father, Junius Brutus Booth, played the role sympathetically.

Edwin Warfield was born to Albert G. Warfield and Margaret Gassaway Warfield at the " Oakdale " plantation in Howard County, Maryland.

Although Sir Thomas Gates was later hailed by Sir Edwin Sandys as the " principle forwarder " of the London Virginia Company, Captain John Smith wrote in his General Historie that, when in 1605-06 the Jamestown expedition was making no progress, Wingfield got it moving: " Captain Bartholomew Gosnold second cousin, one of the first movers of this plantation, having many years solicited many of his friends, but found small assistance ; Gosnold at last prevailed with some gentlemen, Capt John Smith, Mr. Edward-Maria Wingfield, Mr. Reverend Robert Hunt, and diverse others, who depended a year upon his projects, but nothing could be effected, till by their great charge and industry, it came to be apprehended by certain of the Nobility, Gentry and Merchants, so that His Majesty by his letters patents, gave permission for establishing Councils, to direct here ; and to govern, and to execute there.