Fred Allandale
{{short description|British actor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Fred Allandale
| birth_name = Frederick Arnold
| birth_date = {{birth date|1872|07|04|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England,
{{Nowrap|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
| death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|1921|12|23|1872|07|07}}
| death_place = Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
|parents = Alfred Arnold
Sophia Hudson
|spouse = Maie Ash
}}
Fred Allandale (4 July 1872 – 23 December 1921) was a British musical comedy actor, comedian and producer.
Biography
Allandale was born Frederick Arnold{{r|Gazette}} in Camberwell, London, on 4 July 1872, the son of Alfred Arnold{{r|Times}} and Sophia Hudson. He was the grandson of the Irish comedian James Hudson.{{r|Times}} He was educated at Christ's Hospital and worked as an accountant.{{r|Times}}
Performing using the stage name of Fred Allandale,{{r|Gazette}} his first stage appearance was in The Geisha{{r|Western}} at the Theatre Royal Lincoln on 7 February 1898, playing Lieutenant Cuningham.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} On 28 August 1905, he played Bobbie Scott in The Blue Moon at the Lyric Theatre. He toured with the comedy sketch The Soldier and the Girl. He also produced his own Pierrot Company in Blackpool.
His second wife was the musical comedy actress Maie Ash.{{r|Net}} Allandale died on 23 December 1921 in Birmingham{{r|Western}} from a heart attack{{r|Press}} and was buried in Abney Park Cemetery. The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America restored his grave on 29 July 2016.{{r|Guild}}
References
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{{citation |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28466/page/1303/data.pdf |journal=The London Gazette |date=17 February 1911 |title=Adjudications |page=1303 |number=28466}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.stagebeauty.net/th-frames.html?http&&&www.stagebeauty.net/ash/ash-m.html |title=Maie Ash |publisher=Stagebeauty.net |last=Gillan |first=Don |access-date=24 August 2016 |mode=cs2}}
{{citation |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/19211227/054/0006?browse=false |newspaper=Western Daily Press |date=27 December 1921 |page=6 |title=The Late Fred Allandale |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
{{citation |newspaper=The Times |title=Mr. Fred Allandale |date=24 December 1921 |page=4 |issue=42912}}
{{citation |title=Found dead in bed |newspaper=Western Morning News |date=24 December 1921 |number=19281 |page=5 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000329/19211224/051/0005?browse=true |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
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Category:British male comedians
Category:British male stage actors
Category:Male actors from London
Category:20th-century British male actors
Category:19th-century British male actors
Category:19th-century English comedians