Cecil Raleigh

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Cecil Raleigh (January 27, 1856 – November 10, 1914, London, England) was an English actor and playwright.

He was the son of Dr. John Fothergill Rowlands, and took the stage name of Raleigh. He played for a time in musical comedy, but deserted acting for playwriting and, either alone or in collaboration, produced an immense number of melodramas, staged at first chiefly at the Comedy Theatre, London, and in later years at Drury Lane. Cheer, Boys, Cheer (1895); Hearts are Trumps (1899); The Best of Friends (1902); and The Whip (1909–10) are typical examples. Several of his plays were later made into motion pictures. He also acted as dramatic critic to two or three London papers, and became secretary to the School of Dramatic Art in Gower Street, London.

He married Effie Adelaide Henderson (later Madame Albanesi, 1859 – October 16, 1936), a British novelist who published as Effie Adelaide Rowlands, whom he later divorced. He later married Saba Raleigh (1866–1923), an actress, with whom he remained married until his death in 1914.

Plays

Theatrical poster for The Great Ruby

The Whip, 1909, with Henry Hamilton, the basis for silent films of 1917 and 1928
Sporting Life, with Seymour Hicks, the basis for silent films of 1918 and 1925
Hearts Are Trumps, 1900, the basis for the 1920 silent film
The Marriages of Mayfair, the basis for the 1920 silent film The Fatal Hour
The Hope, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1920 silent film
The Best of Luck, with Hamilton and Arthur Collins, the basis for the 1920 silent film
The Derby Winner, co-written with Hamilton and Augustus Harris, 1895, was produced in the United States under the title The Sporting Duchess. It was the basis of silent films of the same names in 1915 and 1923
Cheer, Boys, Cheer, with Harris and Hamilton, 1895
The Sporting Duchess, the basis for silent films of 1915 and 1920
Dick Whittington, with Harris and Hamilton
The White Heather, 1897, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1919 silent film The White Heather
The Sins of Society, 1909, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1915 silent film
The Great Ruby, 1898, with Hamilton, the basis for the 1915 silent film
The King's Minister, the basis for the 1914 silent film
The Best of Friends
The Price of Peace
The Grey Mare, with George Robert Sims
The Guardsman, with Sims
Stolen Orders, 1915, with Hamilton, turned into a motion picture in 1918

Musical theatre

Little Christopher Columbus, 1893 burlesque, co-written with Sims
Dick Whittington and His Cat, 1894 pantomime, co-written with Augustus Harris and Hamilton
The Yashmak, 1897 musical, co-written with Seymour Hicks
The Sunshine Girl, 1912 musical, book co-written with Paul A. Rubens

External links

Cecil Raleigh at the Internet Broadway Database
Cecil Raleigh at the Internet Movie Database
Obituary at the New York Times
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

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Name	Raleigh, Cecil
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Short description	British actor and playwright
Date of birth	January 27, 1856
Place of birth
Date of death	November 10, 1914
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