Robert Drouet, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Drouet

American actor

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1870

Date of Death: 17-Aug-1914

Profession: actor, stage actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Robert Drouet

  • Robert Drouet (March 27, 1870 – August 17, 1914) was an American actor and playwright. Robert Drouet (probably a stage name), was born in Clinton, Iowa.
  • He married Mildred Loring, daughter of M.
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  • Loring, October 1897, and died in New York City from heart disease. Drouet joined a theatrical company at 16 and later took out his own Shakespearean repertoire company.
  • For two years he played leading parts with Robert Downing, then created the part of General Delarouche in Paul Kaubar.
  • Drouet played Citizen Pierre in a Charles Coghlan play of the same name (1899) and Colonel Jack Brereton in a drama based on Paul Leicester Ford's novel Janice Meredith.
  • In this four-act play, which opened in 1900, Drouet played the lead, opposite Mary Mannering debut in the title role.
  • He next appeared in two Clyde Fitch hits: He created the chief character, John Austin, in The Girl With the Green Eyes, which ran 108 performances at the Savoy Theatre in New York beginning in 1902; and he gave 89 performances of The Woman in the Case at the Herald Square Theatre in 1905.
  • Fitch was one of the most celebrated playwrights of the day. Among Drouet's other performances as an actor were The Measure of a Man (1906), Genesee of the Hills, 1907, The Mills of the Gods by George Broadhurst (1907), The Stronger Sex with Annie Russell (1908), The Conflict (1909), and Madame X, a tremendous hit of 1910. As a playwright Robert Drouet authored seven works: Doris (produced in New York 1895, revival 1899), The White Czar, Montana, Tomorrow, An Idyll of Virginia, Fra Diano, and Captain Bob.

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