John Copeland Buckstone (9 September 1859 – 24 September 1924) was an English stage and film actor of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, who was most famous for his 1901 stage play Scrooge, which was the basis for the first film version of A Christmas Carol in the same year.[1] He was the son of the actor John Baldwin Buckstone and the brother of Lucy Isabella Buckstone.
- ^ Guida, Fred. A Christmas Carol and its Adaptations: a Critical Examination of Dickens's Story on Screen and Television. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (2000), pp. 66–67 Google Books