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Francis Wilson (February 2, 1854 – October 7, 1935) was an American actor, born in Philadelphia. ==Career== He began his career in a minstrel show with Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels, but by 1878 was playing at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and the next year appeared in ''M'liss'' with Annie Pixley. After several years in regular comedy, he took up some comic opera, appearing with the McCaull Comic Opera Company and making a great success in ''Erminie'' (1886). In 1889, leaving New York's Casino Theatre, he made his appearance as a star in ''The Oolah''. Plays in which he starred subsequently include: ''The Lion Tamer'' (1891); ''The Little Corporal'' (1898); "The Little Father of the Wilderness" (1905); ''The Bachelor's Baby'' (1909), written by himself. He also appeared in several productions of Rip Van Winkle. He formed his own theater company 1899. He was the author of ''Joseph Jefferson: Reminiscences of a Fellow Player'' (1906), ''The Eugene Field I Knew'' (1898), "Francis Wilson's Life of Himself" Houghton Mifflin Company(1924), "John Wilkes Booth, Fact and Fiction of Lincoln's Assassination", Houghton Mifflin Company (1929), a book written with information from his close friend Edwin Booth, and several plays of which ''The Bachelor's Baby'' was the most successful. Francis Wilson was the founding president of Actors Equity, 1913-1920.
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