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Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904
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Dates
- Existence: 20 December 1860 - 31 October 1904
Biography
George Wild Galvin aka Dan Leno was born in St Pancras, London on 20 December 1860 to struggling music hall performers John Galvin (1826–1864) and Louisa Dutton (1831–1891).
Dan first appeared on stage with his parents in 1864 aged four years old as a contortionist act called ‘Little George’. That same year his father died of alcoholism, leaving the family in an even more precarious financial situation than they were before. The family moved to Liverpool and in 1866 Dan’s mother re-married William Grant (1837–1896) aka William Leno.
Initially, Dan developed a clog dancing act with his brother Henry, which they toured together. However, Dan’s talent became apparent early on and he soon developed his own solo act, which included comedy patter, dancing and singing. This act developed into the character comedy inspired by everyday life, which made him famous.
By 1884, Dan had started to perform as Dan Leno, name he adopted from his stepfather. At the height of
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Theatre productions of Dan Leno
Dan Leno (20 December 1860 – 31 October 1904) was an English comedian and stage actor of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, famous for performing in music hall. As a child, he was known for his clog dancing, and in his teen years, he became the star of his family's music hall act throughout Britain.[1] He was an increasingly popular solo artist during the late 1880s and 1890s.[2][3] He also performed in pantomimes and a few Victorian burlesques and comic plays and musicals, especially in the last two decades of his career.[4]
Leno's first theatre appearance (as distinguished from music hall) was in pantomime in Liverpool in 1865, where he had a supporting part as a juvenile clown in Fortunatus; or, The Magic Wishing Cap alongside his parents, who appeared as "Mr and Mrs Leno – Comic Duettists".[5] Leno earned wider theatrical notice as Dame Durden in a pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at London's Surrey Theatre in 1886, having been spotted singing "Going to Buy Milk" by the theatre's ma
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British music hall, pantomime and film comedian
Billed on his 1897 American appearance as 'The Funniest Man on Earth', Dan Leno's humour was often based on the hardships he had endured as a young variety performer. Like Chaplin both parents were entertainers, his slum birthplace in London's Somers Town suggesting that they were far from successful. Economic necessity dictated his debut as a acrobat at the ramshackle Cosmotheca Music Hall, Paddington in 1864. By 1866 his father had died and his mother's remarriage to the comedian Will Leno led to a migration to Liverpool where Dan and his brother regularly appeared as 'The Brothers Leno - Champion Dancers'. For the next fifteen years the family pursued engagements throughout the north of England, Scotland and Ireland. By his late teens Dan was appearing as a solo performer, winning a 'World' clog dancing competition at Leeds in 1880. Following a triumphant London debut in 1885, a succession of pantomime engagements at the Surrey Theatre and Drury Lane, established him as the nation's favourite comedian.
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