Florence Creagh

(b. **/**/**** – d. South Africa, **/**/1948). British actress. Florence Creagh was a British-born actress who appeared on the stage in such plays as A Fast Life (1900) at the Pavilion Theatre in Edinburgh and in Daddy’s Boy at the Empire Theatre in Mossley. After coming to South Africa she appeared in a number of films for African Film Productions: The Water Cure (B.F. Clinton/1916), A Border Scourge (Ralph Kimpton & Joseph Albrecht/1917), The Piccanin’s Christmas (Dick Cruikshanks & Joseph Albrecht/1917), Bond and Word (Dick Cruikshanks/1918) and Prester John (Dick Cruikshanks/1920). According to The Stage Year Book of 1911, she and actor/director Dick Cruikshanks were both members of The Sketch Association and they probably came out to South Africa together to work for AFP. Locally she and Cruikshanks acted in The rising generation for African Theatres in October 1924. It is not known exactly when they were married, but when she died in 1948 her surname was given as Cruikshanks. (FO)

Sources

Le Roux, André I. & Fourie, Lilla – Filmverlede: geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse speelfilm

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