- Role
- Secondary
- Profession
- Ac-tor
- Birthdate
- 09/14/1826
- Relationship Status
- Single
- Playby
- Jonathan Harris
- Height
- 5'9
- Build
- Medium
- Hair Color
- Black (Honestly!)
- Eye Color
- Grey-Blue
- Physical Description
Athletic for his age: it behoves one to be so very, very careful about one's figure when one is on the stage.
- Reputation
His reputation precedes him (unfortunately)
- Employment Details
Member (and between you and I, Star and major draw) of a stock theatre company.
- Expertise
Acting, dear boy, providing flights of fancy for the dreary, humdrum lives of ordinary folk.
- Kith & Kin
His family is the troupe.
- Timeline
Born in Ridgeview, Ohio: 1826
After a visit to the theatre at age 7, young Edward decided upon a career upon the boards which no amount of cajoling from his poor distracted Mother and father, who wanted the boy to go into pig farming, could dissuade him from.
1836: Put on a "Parlour Room Frolic" which he wrote, produced, and, of course, starred in.
1844: First professional engagement as Agrippa in Coriolanus in a rather ramshackle production in Camden, New Jersey.
1845: Performed with Junius Brutus Booth's company, often acting as J.B. Snr's understudy, and performing in lead roles regularly when the great actor's alcohol abuse rendered him unfit for the stage until his death in 1852. He continues to perform with the sons sporadically, knowing John, Edwin, and Junius, Jr. from a young age.
1859: The apogee of his career: his Richard III in Richmond, which made him the darling of antebellum southern society.
1866: A period of depression, following the events surrounding the actions of his friend and fellow actor, John Wilkes Booth, a messy divorce, and a decline in the demand in the sophisticated East for his barnstorming style of performance. Also, at 40 he becomes a little to old to carry off 'Juvenile Lead' type roles.
1869: Darling accepts an offer to tour the West with a stock company and finds a new lease of life as a character actor - often the villain of the piece - with more homespun audiences who appreciate his over-the-top style.
1874: Joins Evelyn Hardy's Excelsior Theater Company in Montana, adding (in his opinion) a good deal of much needed class to the outfit.
- Character Notes
Somewhat... theatrical.
- Written By
- Javia