Herbert Flemming
Herbert Flemming (*-1908) was an actor and manager, active in South Africa between 1895 and 1908.
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Also known as "Bertie Flemming", he was said to be was one of the most popular actors on the British stage and in fact a matinee idol in London in the late 1880s.
He also toured the colonies, and arrived in South Africa in 1895 to make his debut as an actor in the country with the Luscombe Searelle company.
He went on to become a company and theatre manager of some renown in South Africa as well as Australia, inter alia working with Robert Brough (1857-1906). For example, the Brough-Flemming Comedy Company brought Beauty and the Barge (W.W. Jacobs and Louis N. Parker) from the Haymarket Theatre, London, to open at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne on 8th July, 1905 and was manager of the New English Comedy Company there in 1908.
Flemming died unexpectedly in Melbourne on 23 October, 1908, at the age of 53, leaving a widow and two children.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Awards, etc
Sources
Obituary in the Bendigo Advertiser, Satyrday 24 October, 1908[1]
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2003043649/
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 402-408, 413.
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