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British actress (1872–1941)

Sydney Fairbrother, from an 1896 publication.

Sydney Fairbrother (31 July 1872 – 4 January 1941) was a British actress.

Born Sydney Tapping on 31 July 1872 in London to actor/playwright Alfred B. Tapping and actress Florence Cowell. Her mother was the daughter of actor and comic singer Samuel Houghton Cowell. Sydney was educated at Blackpool and Bonn. She made her stage debut in Birmingham in 1890 with the famous Kendall Company and a few years later toured America with them. She came to the screen in 1915 in a film called Iron Justice and chiefly appeared in comedy roles. She retired in 1938 and died on 4 January 1941 in London, aged 68.

Selected filmography

References

  1. Profile, BFI.org. Accessed 10 July 2022.
  2. Who's who in the theatre. University of California. London : Pitman ; Detroit : Gale Research. 1912. p. 275.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. Ebsworth, J. W. (23 September 2004). Banerji, Nilanjana (ed.). Cowell, Samuel Houghton (1820–1864), actor and comic singer. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6492.
  4. "An Actress of Genius". The Bioscope. No. 447. 6 May 1915. p. 69. Retrieved 14 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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