Edwin Forrest | |
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Died | December 12, 1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 66)
Occupation | Actor |
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Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806 – December 12, 1872) was a nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.