Sydney Fairbrother
Sydney Fairbrother (31 July 1873 – 4 January 1941) was a British actress.[1]
Born Sydney Tapping on 31 July 1873 in London to actor and playwright Alfred B. Tapping and the actress Florence Cowell[2], she was educated at Blackpool and Bonn. She made her stage debut in Birmingham, UK in 1890 with the famous Kendall Company and a few years later toured America with them. She came to the screen in 1915 in a film called Iron Justice[3] and chiefly appeared in comedy roles. She retired in 1938 and died on 4 January 1941 in London.
Selected filmography
- The Mother of Dartmoor (1916)
- The Game of Liberty (1916)
- Auld Lang Syne (1917)
- The Children of Gibeon (1920)
- A Temporary Gentleman (1920)
- The Rotters (1921)
- The Golden Dawn (1921)
- The Bachelor's Club (1921)
- The Rest Cure (1923)
- The Beloved Vagabond (1923)
- Married Love (1923)
- Heartstrings (1923)
- Reveille (1924)
- Love and Hate (1924)
- Wanted, a Boy (1924)
- A Fowl Proceeding (1925)
- A Friend of Cupid (1925)
- Nell Gwyn (1926)
- The Return of Raffles (1932)
- The Third String (1932)
- The Temperance Fete (1932)
- Double Dealing (1932)
- Excess Baggage (1933)
- Dora (1933)
- Home, Sweet Home (1933)
- Gay Love (1934)
- Chu Chin Chow (1934)
- Brewster's Millions (1935)
- All In (1936)
- Fame (1936)
- Paradise for Two (1937)
- Dreaming Lips (1937)
- Make It Three (1938)
References
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/11975
- ^ Who's who in the theatre. University of California. London : Pitman ; Detroit : Gale Research. 1912. p. 275.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ^ "An Actress of Genius". The Bioscope (447). 6 May 1915. p. 69. Retrieved 14 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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