Herbert Flemming
Herbert Flemming () was an actor and manager, active in South Africa between 1895 and 1912.
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Biography
Also known as "Bertie Flemming", he became a matinee idol in London in the late 1880s, He arrived in South Africa in 1895 to make his debut in the country with the Luscombe Searelle company.
He later also worked in Australia, inter alia with Robert Brough (1857-1906). 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, Sydney on 8th July, 1905.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Awards, etc
Sources
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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