Theater: Biographies
- Ward, Douglas Turner
- Abbott, George
- Adams, Maude
- Adler, Stella
- Alleyn, Edward
- Anderson, Dame Judith
- Anderson, Laurie
- Andreini, Isabella Canali
- Antoine, André
- Appia, Adolphe
- Arliss, George
- Ayckbourn, Sir Alan
- Bancroft, Anne
- Bancroft, Marie Effie Wilton, Lady
- Bankhead, Tallulah
- Barnum, P. T.
- Baron, Michel
- Barrault, Jean-Louis
- Barrett, Lawrence
- Barry, Elizabeth
- Barrymore
- Baylis, Lilian
- Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy
- Beck, Julian
- Bedford, Brian
- Béjard
- Béjart
- Bel Geddes, Barbara
- Bel Geddes, Norman
- Belasco, David
- Benda, Wladyslaw Theodor
- Bennett, Michael
- Bernhardt, Sarah
- Betterton, Thomas
- Booth, Edwin
- Booth, Junius Brutus
- Boucicault, Dion
- Boyron, Michel
- Bracegirdle, Anne
- Brahm, Otto
- Brice, Fanny
- Brook, Peter
- Brustein, Robert Sanford
- Burbage, Richard
- Caldwell, Zoe
- Campbell, Mrs. Patrick
- Cantor, Eddie
- Carnovsky, Morris
- Carte, Richard D'oyly
- Carter, Mrs. Leslie
- Chevalier, Maurice
- Childress, Alice
- Christy, Edwin P.
- Cibber, Colley
- Clive, Kitty
- Clurman, Harold
- Cobb, Lee J.
- Cohan, George Michael
- Copeau, Jacques
- Coquelin, Benoît Constant
- Cornell, Katharine
- Coward, Noël
- Crabtree, Lotta
- Craig, Edward Gordon
- Cushman, Charlotte Saunders
- D'oyly Carte, Richard
- Daly, Arnold
- Daly, Augustin
- Deburau, Jean Gaspard
- Delsarte, François
- Dench, Dame Judi
- Devrient, Ludwig
- Drake, Alfred
- Draper, Ruth
- Drew, John
- Dullin, Charles
- Duse, Eleonora
- Evans, Dame Edith
- Evans, Maurice
- Fay, Frank
- Ferrer, José Vicente
- Fields, Lew
- Fiske, Minnie Maddern
- Fo, Dario
- Fontanne, Lynn
- Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston
- Forrest, Edwin
- Friel, Brian
- Frohman, Charles
- Garrick, David
- Geddes, Norman Bel
- Gielgud, Sir John
- Gillette, William
- Gordon, Ruth
- Grimaldi, Joseph
- Grotowski, Jerzy
- Guitry, Lucien Germain
- Guthrie, Sir Tyrone
- Gwyn, Nell
- Hall, Sir Peter Reginald Frederick
- Hallam, Lewis
- Hampden, Walter
- Hare, Sir John
- Harris, Julie
- Harrison, Rex
- Hayes, Helen
- Held, Anna
- Henslowe, Philip
- Holt, Helen Maud
- Hopper, Dewolf
- Houdin, Jean Eugène Robert
- Houdini, Harry
- Hurok, Sol
- Hurt, John
- Irving, Sir Henry
- Jackson, Glenda
- Jay, Ricky
- Jefferson, Joseph
- Jolson, Al
- Jones, James Earl
- Jones, Robert Edmond
- Jouvet, Louis
- Kazan, Elia
- Kean, Edmund
- Keene, Laura
- Kemble, Adelaide
- Kemble, Charles
- Kemble, Elizabeth
- Kemble, Fanny
- Kemble, George Stephen
- Kemble, John Philip
- Kemble, Roger
- Kemble, Sarah
- Kushner, Tony
- Lahr, Bert
- Langtry, Lillie
- Lawrence, Gertrude
- Le Gallienne, Eva
- Lecouvreur, Adrienne
- Leigh, Vivien
- Lekain
- Lemaître, Frédérick
- Lenya, Lotte
- Lillie, Beatrice
- Logan, Joshua
- Lunt, Alfred, And Lynn Fontanne
- Lyubimov, Yuri Petrovich
- Mackaye, Steele
- Macklin, Charles
- Macready, William Charles
- Malina, Judith
- Marceau, Marcel
- March, Fredric
- Martin, Mary
- Merman, Ethel
- Merrick, David
- Meyerhold, Vsevolod
- Mielziner, Jo
- Miller, Sir Jonathan Wolfe
- Modjeska, Helena
- Mostel, Zero
- Mulholland, John
- Muni, Paul
- Murrow, Edward Roscoe
- Nazimova, Alla
- Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir
- Oakley, Annie
- Oldfield, Anne
- Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier Of Brighton
- Papp, Joseph
- Pastor, Tony
- Perry, Antoinette
- Phelps, Samuel
- Piscator, Erwin
- Pitoëff, Georges
- Playfair, Sir Nigel
- Prince, Hal
- Quin, James
- Rachel, French Actress
- Randi, James
- Redgrave
- Rehan, Ada
- Reinhardt, Max
- Réjane
- Rich, John
- Richardson, Sir Ralph
- Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène
- Rogers, Will
- Roscius, Quintus
- Russell, Lillian
- Schildkraut, Rudolph
- Schröder, Friedrich Ludwig
- Scofield, Paul
- Seldes, Marian Hall
- Sellars, Peter
- Shubert Brothers
- Siddons, Sarah Kemble
- Siegfried And Roy
- Skinner, Otis
- Smith, Dame Maggie
- Spalding, Gilbert R.
- Spaulding, Gilbert R.
- Stanislavsky, Constantin
- Stapleton, Maureen
- Strasberg, Lee
- Stritch, Elaine
- Talma, François Joseph
- Tarlton, Richard
- Terry, Dame Ellen Alicia
- Thorndike, Dame Sybil
- Tom Thumb
- Tree, Ellen
- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm
- Vakhtangov, Yevgeni
- Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi)
- Von Sydow, Max
- Wallack, James William
- Weber And Fields
- Weber, Joe
- Webster, Margaret
- Whitty, Dame May
- Wilson, Lanford
- Wilson, Robert
- Woffington, Peg
- Wood, Sarah
- Zeffirelli, Franco
- Ziegfeld, Florenz
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