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, as well as Florence Roberts, were part of J.C. Williamson's American Dramatic Company that sailed for a tour of South Africa to play the houses controlled by the African Theatre Trust. While here he also acted in Bond and Word (1918), a film written by F. Horace Rose, then Editor of the Natal Witness, and directed by Dick Cruikshanks. (FO)

Sources

The New York Clipper, 21 March 1917

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