Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (died 1890)

Dion Boucicault

Irish actor and dramatist (1820-1890)

Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking…