Charles Francis Coghlan
| Charles Francis Coghlan | |
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“The Wallet of Time “ 1913
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| Born |
June 11, 1842 Paris, France |
| Died | November 27, 1899 (aged 57) Galveston, Texas, USA |
| Occupation | Actor and Playwright |
| Years active | 1859-1899 |
Charles Francis Coghlan (1842–1899) was an Anglo-Irish actor and playwright once popular on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles F. Coghlan was born on June 11, 1842, in Paris, France to British subjects, Francis (sometimes spelled Frances) and Amie Marie (née Ruhly) Coghlan. His father, a native of Dublin, Ireland, was the founder of Coghlan's Continental Dispatch and publisher of Coghlan's Continental Guides, and counted among his friends, Charles Dickens, Charles Reade, and other literary figures of the day. Amie Coghlan was born on the Channel Island of Jersey sometime around 1821. Charles Coghlan was later raised in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Hull, Yorkshire and though originally groomed for a career in law he had chosen instead to be an actor whilst still in his teens.
Charles Coghlan began his stage career in 1859 as a minor player with the Sadler's Wells Theatre's summer tour. During their engagement in Dublin, Ireland Coghlan approached John Baldwin Buckstone, then manager of the Haymarket Theatre, with a play he had written. Buckstone passed on the play, but instead gave him the chance to play Monsieur Mafoi, a small role in “The Pilgrim of Love” a play adapted by Lord Byron from Irving’s “Legends of the Alhambra” that opened at the Haymarket on April 9, 1860. Over the following few seasons Coghlan would play a number of supporting roles that steadily increased his stature as an actor. In 1868 he played Charles Surface in Sheridan’s "School for Scandal" at the St James's Theatre and later that year played Sir Oscar opposite Adelaide Neilson in Marston’s “Life for Life” at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Coghlan would remain with Prince of Wales over the next seven or eight seasons playing leading roles such as Geoffrey Delamayn in Collins’ "Man and Wife” and Harry Speadbrow in Gilbert’s Sweethearts.
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