BELASCO’S REPERTORY AS AN ACTOR.
A complete list of the characters that Belasco assumed, while he remained an actor, is not obtainable, but the subjoined partial list, which I have carefully made by consulting newspaper advertisements and other sources of authentic information, is sufficiently suggestive of his ample experience in the vocation of acting. The student of his career should needfully bear in mind, moreover, that he has, first and last, set on the stage every one of the plays here named (and many others), besides acting in them:
Photograph by Falk. The Albert Davis Collection.
BELASCO, ABOUT 1880
DAVID BELASCO AS FAGIN, IN “OLIVER TWIST”