GON3912429: Fred Emney, comedian and actor of stage and screen, 12 February 1900 - 25 December 1980 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912432: Herbert Campbell, English music hall comedian and one half of a long-term double act with Dan Leno at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London / Bridgeman Images

GON3912442: Albert Chevalier in top hat and monocle as Lord Adolphus Villiers in 'The Marriages of Mayfair' at the Drury Lane Theatre, London / Bridgeman Images

GON3912467: Karl Mantzius - portrait with top hat and cane / Bridgeman Images

GON3912476: Werner Krauss in nineteenth century costume as Saint-Just in Georg Büchner's play 'Dantons Tod' (Danton's Death) / Bridgeman Images

GON3912479: Albert Bassermann - portrait as Albrecht von Wallenstein in Friedrich Schiller 's play 'Wallenstein' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912488: Will Quadflieg (Friedrich Quadflieg) - portrait of the German film actor wearing a hat, 15 September 1914 - 27 November 2003 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912512: Coquelin cadet (Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin), French stage actor of the Comédie Française, 16 May 1848 - 8 February 1909 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912539: Anton Walbrook, né Adolf Wohlbrück, holding a cigarette / Bridgeman Images

GON3912555: Lawrence Olivier as Oedipus in the 1946 Old Vic production of Sophocles' 'Oedipus' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912571: Charles Laughton, British actor 1 July 1899 - 15 December 1962 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912601: Lucien Guitry, French actor and father of Sacha / Bridgeman Images

GON3912131: Abraham Sofaer and Dorothy Green as the King and Queen in production of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark', performed at the Old Vic 29 April 1935 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912134: Roy Henderson as Mr / Bridgeman Images

GON3912158: The company of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' by Emma Orczy, 1910, Broadway production / Bridgeman Images

GON3912161: Harley Granville-Barker as General Burgoyne in George Bernard Shaw's 'The Devil's Disciple' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912167: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as King John with a sceptre on his throne in William Shakespeare 's 'King John' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912170: Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Caesar in William Shakespeare 's 'Julius Caesar' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912216: Fay Compton as Ophelia in William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912252: John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Romeo and Juliet in William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912255: John Barrymore and Fay Compton as Hamlet and Ophelia in William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912270: John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Romeo and Juliet in William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912408: Marie Lloyd (Mathilda Wood), English music hall singer, 12 February 1870 - 7 October 1922 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912439: Billy Mayerl signed portrait / Bridgeman Images

GON3912449: Eugénie Segond-Weber (Caroline-Eugénie Weber) at the Comédie Française, Paris / Bridgeman Images

GON3912492: Gertrude Lawrence, in role, reclining on a deck chair in an ocean liner set / Bridgeman Images

GON3912528: Gabrielle Robinne - portrait in feather headdress / Bridgeman Images

GON3912549: Ada Rehan in role / Bridgeman Images

GON3912562: Ivor Novello in role / Bridgeman Images

GON3912575: Fred Astaire / Bridgeman Images

GON3912591: Matheson Lang as Hamlet and Hutin Britton as Ophelia in William Shakespeare 's Hamlet / Bridgeman Images

SMW3923840: Folk dancers wearing national costumes of different Russian Soviet regions, International Children's Festival, Moscow / Bridgeman Images

SMW3923846: Armenian Dance Company in performance, Yerevan, Armenia, former USSR (Soviet Union) state / Bridgeman Images

SMW3923849: Armenian Dance Company in performance, Yerevan, Armenia, former USSR (Soviet Union) state / Bridgeman Images

SMW3923865: Mongolian musician playing traditional instrument, in folk dress, Gobi / Bridgeman Images

SMW3923871: Children 's choir of Young Pioneers, Soviet youth organization, with bust of Lenin in background, Tallinn, Estonia, 1966 / Bridgeman Images