Edmund Milton Holland
{{Short description|American comedian (1848–1913)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Edmund Holland
| image = Stage actor E M Holland (SAYRE 3525).jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = E. M. Holland
| birth_name = Edmund Milton Holland
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1848|09|07}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1913|11|24|1848|09|07}}
| death_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
| resting_place = Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
| occupation = Actor * Comedian
| spouse = Emily Seward (? - 1913, his death)
| children = 2, including Edna Holland
| father = George Holland
| known_for =
| office = Shepherd of The Lambs
| term_start = 1890
| term_end = 1891
| predecessor = John R. Brady
| successor = Clay M. Greene
| signature = Signature of Edmund Milton Holland.png
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Edmund Milton Holland (September 7, 1848 – November 24, 1913) was an American actor and comedian. Holland was a charter member of The Lambs in 1877 and served as shepherd (president) from 1890-1891.
Biography
He was born in New York City on September 7, 1848, the son of well-known English American stage actor George Holland.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47307299/famous-actor-dead/ |title=Famous Actor Dead |newspaper=Evening Times-Republican |location=Cleveland, Ohio |page=1 |date=1913-11-24 |access-date=2020-03-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}
He appeared upon the stage in childhood, but his regular professional career began in 1866 at Barnum's Museum. The next year, under the name of Mr. E. Milton, he became a member of Wallack's company, with which he played successfully in The Road to Ruin, Caste, and other pieces until 1880. After an interval, during which he made a tour in England, he was engaged in 1882 at the Madison Square Theatre. Among his characters in the years that followed were:
- Pittacus Green in Hazel Kirke
- Old Rogers in Esmerelda
- Captain Redwood in Jim the Penman
- Lot Burden in Saints and Sinners
- Colonel Carter in Colonel Carter of Cartersville, at Palmer's Theatre
Beginning in 1895, he and his brother Joseph starred for two years in A Social Highwayman and other plays. In 1901–02 he played the title rôle in Eben Holden, and from 1903 to 1906 he played Captain Bedford in Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman. In 1909 he joined the New Theatre Company, of which he remained a member till 1911, playing, among other parts:
- Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal
- Canon Bonington in Don
- Mr. Elkin in The Thunderbolt
- Gaffer Tyl in The Blue Bird
- Baron Von Haugh in Old Heidelberg
- Metz in Years of Discretion at the Belasco Theatre in 1912.
Holland was married to actress Emily Seward.{{cite news |title=E. M. Holland dead of heart disease |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62918924/e-m-holland/ |accessdate=November 10, 2020 |work=Hartford Courant |date=November 25, 1913 |location=Connecticut, Hartford |page=6|via = Newspapers.com}} Their daughter, Edna Holland, was an actress. They also had a son, Joseph Holland.{{cite news |title=E. M. Holland dies after calling aid |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62917815/e-m-holland/ |accessdate=November 10, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=November 25, 1913 |page=11|via = Newspapers.com}}
He died in Cleveland, Ohio on November 24, 1913, of heart disease. Holland is interred in the family plot in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York. The pallbearers at his funeral included playwrights Clay M. Greene, Joseph R. Grismer, and Augustus Thomas; and actors Francis Wilson, John Drew Jr., DeWolf Hopper and William Courtleigh.{{cite journal|title=Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part 11|first=David W.|last=Watt|volume=44|number=2|page=39|journal=Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historic Society|date=March 2000|editor-first=Fred D.|editor-last=Pfening, Jr.}}
References
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External links
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- {{find a Grave|113950859}}
- [https://thelambs.club/club_member/holland-edmund-m/ E. M. Holland Biography, The Lambs]
- [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Notable_New_Yorkers_of_1869_1899/SUyKjxajEocC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=edmund%20milton%20holland&pg=PA377&printsec=frontcover King's Notable New Yorkers, 1869-1899]
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Category:Male actors from New York City
Category:American male comedians
Category:American male stage actors
Category:American vaudeville performers