Julian L'Estrange explained

Julian L'Estrange
Birth Name:Julian Boyle
Birth Date:6 August 1880
Birth Place:Weston-super-Mare, England
Death Date:22 October 1918 (aged 38)
Death Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Actor
Yearsactive:1902–18

Julian L'Estrange (born Julian Boyle; 6 August 1880 – 22 October 1918) was an English-born stage actor who later made a handful of silent films for Paramount Pictures. He married fellow performer Constance Collier at All Saints Church in London on 25 November 1905. They were a well-known married stage couple on both sides of the Atlantic. He died in the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918. Collier talks about him in her 1929 autobiography Harlequinade. She never remarried.[1]

Born in England, L'Estrange came to the United States in September 1908, with his first stage performances in America coming in Myself Bettina and The Chaperone. His Broadway debut was in Imprudence (1902), and his last Broadway play was An Ideal Husband (1918).[2] L'Estrange acted on film in The Girl with the Green Eyes, Zaza, and Daybreak. He died of pneumonia on 22 October 1918 after having had Spanish Influenza.[3]

Partial stage roles

Broadway only

Filmography

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Notes and References

  1. Silent Film Necrology 2nd Edition c. 2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana
  2. Web site: Julian L'Estrange . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . January 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516215709/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/julian-lestrange-48543 . May 16, 2021.
  3. News: Up-to-the-Minute News of Stage and Screen Players . January 15, 2022 . Reading Times . October 24, 1918 . 4. Newspapers.com.