Record ID:
49866272 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50074495
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18070724
  • New York (N.Y.)
Death:
  • 18670807
  • Łódź (Poland)
Associated with:
  • United States Great Britain Russia England
Fields of activity:
  • Performing arts
Occupations:
  • African American actors
Used for:
  • African Roscius, -1867
  • Aldridge, Ira, 1807-1867
  • Oldridz︠h︡, Aĭra, 1807-1867
  • Aldridge, Ira Frederick, -1867
Notes:
  • Peyton, F. A glance at the life of Ira Frederick Aldridge ... c1917.
  • His The black doctor, 1841? t.p. (Ira Aldridge) [Info. fr. InU]
  • Hixon, D.L. Nineteenth-century American drama, 1977 (Aldridge, Ira, 1807-1867) [Info. fr. InU]
  • Ira Aldridge, 2011 ECIP data view (African American Shakespearean actor; b. 1807; d. 1867)
  • Wikipedia, March 18, 2011 (Ira Frederick Aldridge; July 24, 1807, New York City; d. 7 August 1867; an African American stage actor who made his career largely on the London stage and in Europe, especially in Shakespearean roles; he is the only actor of African-American descent among the 33 actors of the English stage honored with bronze plaques at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon; he was especially popular in Prussia and Russia, where he received top honors from heads of state)
  • Encyclopedia of African American history, 1619-1895, via Oxford African American Studies Center database, accessed October 26, 2014: (Aldridge, Ira; Ira Frederick Aldridge; stage / screen actor; born 24 July 1807 in New York, New York, United States; worked at the fledgling African Grove Theater (African Theatre (Theater group)); the theater closed in 1823 after the New York City government refused to grant it a license; immigrated to England (1824); made his debut at the Royal Coburg Theatre (Old Vic Theatre) (1825); used the stage name Mr. Keene and was also known as "the African Roscius" until he reverted to his family name in (1832); toured in Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Austria, and Poland; received the Gold Medal of the First Class for Art and Sciences from the king of Prussia and the Medal of Ferdinand from the emperor of Vienna; became a British citizen (1858); died 10 August 1867 in Lodz, Poland)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)893088
  • (AuCNL)888958
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC OCoLC IEN DLC AKIN:NBD VJTL