Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager (d. 1937) was born on January 16, 1853.

January 16, 1853

Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager (d. 1937) was born on January 16, 1853.

Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of actress Gertrude Elliot. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time, despite his dislike of the job and his lifelong belief that he was temperamentally unsuited to acting.