Cooke, George Frederick
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Cooke, George Frederick (1756–1812), eccentric and unstable English actor, who spent more than 20 years as a strolling player in the provinces before in 1800 he appeared as Richard III at
Covent Garden. He was immediately successful and remained there for 10 years, playing a wide range of parts but constantly in trouble with the management, undisciplined, dissipated, usually in debt, and often in prison. He seemed to act better when drunk and was probably somewhat insane from constant inebriation. In 1810 he went to New York and appeared before an enthusiastic audience at the
Park Theatre, but soon proved as undependable as in London and lost his popularity. Careless in studying his parts, he picked them up quickly and played them intuitively. A powerful actor with fiery eyes and a lofty forehead, he was unequalled at expressing the darker passions.
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