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Edwin Forrest
1806Mar, 9

Edwin Forrest

Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806 – December 12, 1872) was a prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.

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