Harvey Braban

(1883-1943) Before he began touring with Frank Benson—where he no doubt had ample opportunity to play Shakespeare—Braban worked briefly with Beerbohm Tree in his first stage appearance in 1905. He went to New York in 1912 where he played Horatio in Hamlet. In 1919 he took the role of the ghost in Martin Harvey’s production of Hamlet and the next year he appeared as Antonio in The Merchant of Venice. He toured with Martin Harvey in Canada in 1923-24 whereRead more