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Description: | The photographs were Robert Coote's personal collection and include photographs of his stage and film career, friends and colleagues, personal snapshots of both people and places and photographs of his parents on and off stage.
Robert Coote (1909-1982) came from a long line of theatrical performers, his great grandfather being Charles Coote, his grandfather Robert Coote the composer and his father Bert Coote, successful actor and vaudeville performer in England and America, who married actresss Ada Russell. Robert Coote had a long and varied career, appearing in plays and musicals in England and Australia before going to Hollywood in the mid 1930s. After the Second World War he returned to Hollywood and then established himself in both Broadway and London theatres.
Archive reference number: THM/241. (3 boxes) | Format: | Photographs (miscellaneous) Photographs (production) Photographs (portrait) Film stills | Subjects: | Russell Coote Ada Stage photography; Photographs; Theater - Great Britian - 20th century; Theater - United States - 20th century; Actors - Great Britain - 20th century; Motion picture actors and actresses Bert b.1879 | Temporal: | 20th century | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Coote, Robert, 1909-1982 | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Photographs (miscellaneous) Photographs (production) Photographs (portrait) Film stills | Go to resource |
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