Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault Performer, Producer, Composer, Writer, Lyricist - (26 Dec 1820 Dublin, IRELAND - 18 Sep 1890 New York, New York, USA) Male

Also known as: Dionysius Lardner Boucicault

Birthname Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot

Relations: Father of Nina Boucicault, Aubrey Boucicault, Dion G. Boucicault

Husband of Agnes Robertson (1840? - 1888) divorced; the divorce wasn't granted until he was already married for 3 years to Louise Thorndyke (1885 - 1890) his death

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dion-boucicault-5050

Writer - Born December 26, 1822 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]

Died September 18, 1890 in New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot

Louise Thorndyke (9 September 1885 - 18 September 1890) (his death)

Agnes Robertson (1853 - summer 1888) (divorced)

Anne Guiot (9 July 1845 - 1846) (her death)

Trivia (6) *1. Married 3 times. **2. Father of Dion Boucicault Jr., Nina Boucicault, Aubrey Boucicault and Eva Boucicault. ***3. Grandfather of Rene Boucicault and Donald Calthrop. ****4. He was an Irish-American playwright and actor. *****5. His second play, "London Assurance" (1841), foreshadowed the modern social drama. It was a big success and was frequently produced into the 20th century. ******6. He headed a movement of playwrights which produced the first copyright law for drama in the United States.

Personal Quotes (1) Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Playwright: "Kathleen Mavourneen" (filmed as Kathleen Mavourneen (1930), Kathleen Mavourneen (1919))

(1838) Stage: Wrote "Napoleon's Old Guard", produced in Brentford, England.

(1838) Stage: Wrote "A Legend of the Devil's Dyke", produced in Brighton, England.

(1838) Stage: Wrote "Hard Up", produced in Cheltenham, England

(1839) Stage: Wrote "Jack Sheppard", produced in Hull, England

(1839) Stage: Wrote "Lodgings To Let", produced in London, England

(1841) Playwright: "London Assurance" (produced in London)

(1842) Playwright: "Irish Heiress" (produced in London)

(1842) Playwright: "A Lover By Proxy" (produced in London)

(1842) Playwright: "Alma Mater" (produced in London)

(1842) Playwright: "Curiosities of Literature" (produced in London)

(1842) Playwright: "The Bastille" (produced in London)

(1843) Playwright: "Woman" (produced in London)

(1843) Playwright: "Sharp's the Word" (produced in London)

(1843) Playwright: "Victor and Hortense" (produced in London)

(1843) Playwright: "Love in a Sack" (produced in London)

(1843) Playwright: "Lolah" (produced in London)

(1844) Playwright: "Used Up" (produced in London)

(1844) Playwright: "Old Heads and Young Hearts" (produced in London"

(1844) Playwright: "Don Cesar de Bazan" (produced in London)

(1844) Playwright: "A Match for a King" (produced in London)

(1844) Playwright: "Mother and Son" (produced in London)

(1844) Playwright: "Fox and Goose" (produced in London)

(1844) Playwright: "Laying a Ghost" (produced in London)

(1845) Playwright: "A Confidence" (produced in London)

(1845) Playwright: "The Old School" (produced in London)

(1845) Playwright: "Found Out At Home" (produced in London)

(1845) Playwright: "The Water Cure" (produced in London)

(1846) Playwright: "Shakespeare in Love" (produced in London)

(1847) Playwright: "Love and Money" (produced in London)

(1848) Playwright: "The Willow Copse" (produced in London)

(1848) Playwright: "The Knight of Arva" (produced in London)

(1849) Playwright: "Salamandrine" (produced in London)

(1850) Playwright: "Giralda" (produced in London)

(1850) Playwright: "The Invisible Husband" (produced in London)

(1850) Playwright: "A Radical Cure" (produced in London)

(1851) Playwright: "The Broken Vow" (produced in London)

(1851) Playwright: "L'Abbaye de Castro" (produced in London)

(1851) Playwright: "Love in a Maze" (produced in London)

(1851) Playwright: "Sextus the Fifth" (produced in London)

(1851) Playwright: "The Garde Mobile" (produced in London)

(1851) Playwright: "The Queen of Spades" (produced in London)

(1851) Playwright: "Pauline" (produced in London)

(1952) Playwright: "The Corsican Brothers" (produced in London)

(1852) Playwright: "The Vampire" (produced in London)

(1852) Playwright: "The Prima Donna" (produced in London)

(1853) Playwright: "Genevieve" (produced in London)

(1853) Playwright: "The Young Actress" (produced in New York)

(1853) Playwright: "The Fox Hunt; or, Don Quixote II" (produced in New York)

(1954) Playwright: "Andy Blake" (produced in Boston)

(1854) Playwright: "Faust and Margaret" (produced in London)

(1954) Playwright: "Louis XI" (produced in London)

(1854) Playwright: "Pierre the Foundling" (produced in London)

(1855) Playwright: "Eugenie" (produced in London)

(1855) Playwright: "Janet Pride" (produced in London)

(1955) Playwright: "Apollo in New York" (produced in New York)

(1855) Playwright: "The Chameleon" (produced in New Orleans)

(1855) Playwright: "The Fairy Star" (produced in Boston)

(1855) Playwright: "The Life of an Actress" (produced in New Orleans)

(1856) Playwright: "The Phantom" (produced in Philadelphia)

(1856) Playwright: "Azael" (produced in New Orleans)

(1856) Playwright: "Una" (produced in New Orleans)

(1856) Playwright: "Nothing in It" (produced in Philadelphia)

(1956) Playwright: "Bluebelle" (produced in New York)

(1856) Playwright: "The Cat Changed into a Woman" (produced in Boston)

(1857) Playwright: "George D'Arville" (produced in London)

(1857) Playwright: "The Poor of New York" (produced in New York)

(1857) Playwright: "Wanted -- A Widow" (produced in New York)

(1858) Playwright: "Pauvrette", aka "Snowflower" and "The Shepherdess of the Alps" ((produced in New York)

(1858) Playwright: "Jessie Brown; or, The Relief of Lucknow" (produced in New York)

(1859) Playwright: "Dot", aka "The Cricket on the Heart" (produced in New York)

(1859) Playwright: "Chamooni the Third" (produced in New York)

(1859) Playwright: "Smike" (Nicholas Nickleby) (produced in New York)

(1859) Playwright: "The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana" (produced in New York) (filmed as The Octoroon (1913))

(1860) Playwright: "The Trial of Effie Deans", aka "Heart of Midlothian" (produced in New York)

(1860) Playwright: "Vanity Fair; or, Proud of their Vices" (produced in New York)

(1860) Playwright: "The Colleen Bawn; or, The Brides of Garryowen"l (produced on stage in New York). Filmed as Lily of Killarney (1934), Lily of Killarney (1929), Colleen Bawn (1911), The Colleen Bawn (1911), The Colleen Bawn (1911), The Colleen Bawn (1924)

(1862) Playwright: "Lady-Bird; or, Harlequin Lord Dundreary" (a pantomime) (produced in London)

(1864) Playwright: "Arrah-na-Pogue; or, The Wicklow Wedding" (produced in Dublin)

(1865) Playwright: "Rip Van Winkle; or, The Sleep of Twenty Years" (produced in London) (filmed as Rip Van Winkle (1921))

(1865) Playwright: "How She Loves Him" (produced in New York)

(1866) Playwright: "The Parish Clerk" (produced in Manhcester, England)

(1866) Playwright: "The Long Strike" (produced in London)

(1866) Playwright: "The Flying Scud; or, A Four-Legged Fortune" (produced in London)

(1866) Playwright: "Hunted Down; or, The Two Lives of Mary Leigh" (produced in London)

(1867) Playwright: "A Wild Goose Chase" (produced in London)

(1868) Playwright: "After Dark" (produced in London; filmed as After Dark (1915))

(1865) Playwright (with Charles Meade): "Foul Play" (produced in London)

(1869) Playwright (with T.W. Robertson): "Dreams" (produced in New York)

(1869) Playwright: "Presumptive Evidence" (produced in London)

(1869) Playwright: "Formosa; or, The Railroad to Ruin" (produced ;in London)

(1870) Playwright: "Paul Lafarge; or, Self-Made" (produced in London)

(1870) Playwright: "A Dark Night's Work" (produced in London"

(1870) Playwright (with Henry J. Byron): "Lost at Sea" (produced in London)

(1870) Playwright: "The Rapparee; or, The Treaty of Limerick" (produced in London)

(1870) Playwright: "Jezebel; or, The Dead Reckoning" (produced in London)

(1871) Playwright: "Elfie; or, The Cherry Tree Inn" (produced in London)

(1871) Playwright: "Kerry; or, Night and Morning" (produced in London)

(1872) Playwright: "Babil and Bijou" (produced in London)

(1872) Playwright: "John Bull" (altered from Colman) (produced in London)

(1873) Playwright: "A Man of Honor" (produced in New York)

(1873) Playwright: "Led Astray" (produced in New York)

(1873) Playwright: "ora; or, The Golden Fetters" (produced in New York)

(1873) Playwright: "Daddy O'Dowd", aka "The O'Down" and "Suil-a-mor" (produced in New York)

(1873) Playwright: "Mimi" (produced in New York)

(1874) Playwright: "Mercy Dodd" (produced in Philadelphia)

(1874) Playwright: "Belle Lamar" (produced in New York)

(1874) Playwright: "The Shaughraun" (produced in New York). NOTE: Filmed as My Wild Irish Rose (1922), My Wild Irish Rose (1947).

(1876) Playwright: "Forbidden Fruit": (produced in New York)

(1877) Playwright: "The Bridal Tour" (produced in New York)

(1878) Playwright: "Clarissa Harlowe" (produced in New York)

(1878) Playwright: "Marriage" (produced in New York)

(1879) Playwright: "Contempt of Court" (produced in New York)

(1879) Playwright: "Rescued" (produced in New York)

(1883) Playwright: "Vice Versa" (produced in Springfield, MA)

(1883) Playwright: "The Amadan" (produced in Boston)

(1884) Playwright: "Robert Emmett" (produced in Chicago)

(1885) Playwright: "The Jilt" (produced in San Francisco)

(1887) Playwright: "Phryne; or, The Romance of a Young Wife" (produced in San Francisco)

(1887) Playwright: "Fin MacCool" (produced in Boston)

(1888) Playwright: "Cushla-Machree" (produced in Boston)

(1890) Playwright: "The Tale of a Coat" (produced in New York)

(1890) Playwright: "Lend Me Your Wife" (produced in Boston)

(1892) Playwright: "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (produced in New York)

(1981) Stage: His play, "The Streets of London", was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, England. Starring Royce Mills, William Squire, Helen Cherry. Directed by Diane Cilento.

(1980) Stage: Wrote "The Streets of London," performed at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England, with William Squire, Royce Mills, Helen Cherry, Susannah Fellows and Patsy Byrne in the cast. Diane Cilento was director.

(2005) Stage: Wrote "The Shaughraun," performed at the Albery Theatre in London, England, with Don Wycherley, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Frank Grimes, Anita Reeves, Stephen Brennan and Peter Daly in the cast. John McColgan was director.

(1970) Stage: Wrote "London Assurance," performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Aldwych Theatre in London, England, with Donald Sinden, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Jeffery Dench and Elizabeth Spriggs in the cast. Ronald Eyre was director.

(1972) Stage: Wrote "London Assurance," performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the New Theatre in London, England, with Donald Sinden, Judi Dench, Sinéad Cusack, Dinsdale Landen, Michael Williams, Jeffery Dench, Miles Anderson, Derek Smith, John Cater, Elizabeth Spriggs (as "Lady Gay Spanker") and Christopher Biggins in the cast. Ronald Eyre was director.

(1968) Stage: Wrote "The Shaughraun," performed in an Abbey Theatre of Ireland production at the Aldwych Theatre in London, England, with Cyril Cusack, Donal McCann, Desmond Cave, Peadar Lamb, Fidelma Murphy, Brid Lynch and Maire O'Neill in the cast. Hugh Hunt was director.

(1988) Stage: Wrote "The Shaughran," performed in a British National Theatre production at the Oliver Theatre in London, England, with Stephen Rea, Stephen Moore, Kate Spiro, Gillian Barge, Eve Matheson and Robert Urquhart in the cast. Howard Davies was director.

(1980) Stage: Wrote "The Streets of New York," performed at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA, with Orson Bean, Tony Tanner and Katharine Houghton in the cast.

Playwright: "Onawanda; or, An Indian's Devotion" (filmed as Onawanda; or, An Indian's Devotion (1909)).