Edward Donnelly

b. **/**/**** - d. **/**/****). Actor. An American stage actor who was active between 1898 and 1930, Edward Donnelly featured in many Broadway plays. In March 1917 he, Florence Roberts and Richard Scott were part of J.C. Williamson’s American Dramatic Company that sailed for a tour of several months of South Africa to play the houses controlled by the African Theatre Trust. While there he also acted in two films for African Film Productions, namely The Symbol of Sacrifice (1918) and Bond and Word (1918), both written by F. Horace Rose, then Editor of the Natal Witness, and both directed by Dick Cruikshanks. (FO)

Sources

The New York Clipper, 21 March 1917

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