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Harry Watkins (actor)
Harry Watkins (January 14, 1825 – February 5, 1894) was an American actor, theatre manager and playwright, whose career spanned the latter half of the nineteenth century. He is best remembered for his diary, kept from 1845 to 1860, which is considered a rare source of firsthand information about the theater during the antebellum period.
==Life and career==
Watkins was born in New York.〔Graham, Franklin. ("Harry Watkins" ), ''Histrionic Montreal: Annals of the Montreal Stage'', J. Lovell (1902), p. 158〕 He began his acting career in 1845 and, although he was constantly employed as an actor for nearly five decades, he never achieved widespread fame. On February 5, 1854, Watkins married Harriet M. Secor〔Watkins (''Diary''), vol. 11, February 5, 1854〕 with whom he had two children.〔Watkins (''Diary''), vol. 12, February 18, 1855 and vol. 13, October 6, 1857〕 It is not yet known what became of Harriet and their children, but in 1860, Watkins married English-born actress and singer Rosina Shaw (widow of Charles Howard), who used the stage names Rose Howard and Rose Shaw.〔("Rose Shaw, Mrs. Harry Watkins" ), PictureHistory.com, accessed September 16, 2013〕 Watkins became manager of P. T. Barnum's American Museum's theatrical enterprises in 1857,〔("Harry Watkins" ), Picturehistory.com, accessed June 3, 2014〕 where he wrote, presented, and acted in, among other things, ''The Pioneer Patriot''.〔Hughes, Amy. ("White Rebels, 'Ape-Negroes', and Ignoble Savages: Race and Revolutionary Resistance in ''The Pioneer Patriot'' (1858)" ), Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 15, 2012, accessed abstract on October 18, 2014〕 He and his wife, Rose, performed in England from 1860 to 1863. He was described by the British press as "decidedly one of the best delineators of Negro character", but in general his wife had more success in England.〔Stubbs, Naomi J. ("Watkins in England" ), ''The Diary of Harry Watkins'' website, accessed June 3, 2014〕
Watkins played such roles as Edward Middleton in ''The Drunkard'', Wool in his own adaptation of ''The Hidden Hand'', and Titus in ''Brutus'' by John Howard Payne.〔Brown, Thomas Allston. (''A History of the New York Stage: From the First Performance in 1732 to 1901'' ), Vol. 1, pp. 303, 306, 360, 469, Dodd, Mead (1903)〕 He was the author of more than 25 plays by 1889.〔Watkins, Harry. (''His Worst Enemy: Photographed from Life in New York'' ), New York: The American News Company (1889)〕 He was also actively engaged in politics, often expressing his views in his diary as well as in bulletins, such as ''How Shall I Vote?'' (1885),〔Watkins, Harry. ''How Shall I vote?''. New York: Lowe & Co., Printers (1885)〕 and in his book ''His Worst Enemy: Photographed from Life In New York'' (1889).〔
Watkins is fictionalized in the Martin Scorsese film ''Gangs of New York'', in a scene where The Five Points Mission presents a dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''. Barnum had presented H. J. Conway's popular version of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' at the American Museum in the 1850s, which varied from the novel especially in ending happily.〔Cashmore, Ernest. ("What the People Want" ), ''Martin Scorsese's America'', Polity (2009) ISBN 0745645224, accessed October 18, 2014〕
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