John Philip Kemble
British actor and manager (1757-1823) · Actors · Died at 66
John Philip Kemble was a British actor. He was born into a theatrical family as the eldest son of Roger Kemble, actor-manager of a touring troupe. His elder sister Sarah Siddons achieved fame with him on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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John Philip Kemble as Hamlet, from an engraving of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1802)
John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons, in "Macbeth", painted by Thomas Beach in 1786, now housed at the Garrick Club in London.
Kemble as Richard III, by William Hamilton, c. 1787
Cartoon of the riots by Isaac Robert Cruikshank, entitled Killing No Murder as Performing at the Grand National Theatre.
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His other siblings, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton, and Elizabeth Whitlock, also enjoyed success on the stage.
