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| Buckstone on the stage in 1902. |
1859-1924
Actor J. C. (John Copeland) Buckstone was born on this day in the Sydenham area of London. Buckstone was a popular stage actor, who also dabbled in stage adaptation writing. He was the son of the famous stage actor and writer J. B. Buckstone (who is said to haunt the Royal Haymarket Theater...Patrick Stewart claims to have seen him!). One of the younger Buckstone's plays was made into a film in 1901. Buckstone had penned a popular stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol; a short film was produced from the play (half of that film survives and has been released on DVD) entitled Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost starring an actor named Daniel Smith in the title role. Buckstone actually appeared in two films towards the end of his career in 1913. Predictably, one them was a Christmas Carol adaptation: Old Scrooge (also available on DVD)--a version of his adaptation, further adapted by actor Seymour Hicks, who plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the film (note: he famously reprised this role in the classic talkie version of the story in 1935). Buckstone also appeared in the first of two 1913 adaptations of T.W. Robertson's play David Garrick--a film that also features Hicks in the starring role. For the most part, Buckstone's acting career was one on the stage, rather than in front of the film camera. He passed away in London on the 24th of September in 1924--just a little more than two weeks after his 65th birthday. I can find no information as to his burial.
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| Scene from the 1901 film |
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