Born before 1900
248 performers in this catalogue were born in the nineteenth century and have three or more productions attached. Willie Edouin was born in 1846. Victor Moore in 1876. They worked in a theatre lit by gas and finished in one with a sound desk.
248 in the catalogue.
| Henry Clay Barnabee | 1833–1917 | 5 productions |
| Edward Harrigan | 1844–1911 | 3 productions |
| Willie Edouin | 1846–1908 | 10 productions |
| Arthur Klein | 1848–1919 | 6 productions |
| Harry Conor | 1856–1931 | 14 productions |
| Jessie Bartlett Davis | 1859–1905 | 3 productions |
| Robert Shackleton | 1860–1923 | 5 productions |
| George Bickel | 1863–1941 | 13 productions |
| Joseph Herbert | 1863–1923 | 13 productions |
| Joseph W. Herbert | 1863–1923 | 8 productions |
| Sam Bernard | 1863–1927 | 19 productions |
| Sydney Deane | 1863–1934 | 4 productions |
| Fay Templeton | 1865–1939 | 20 productions |
| Raymond Hitchcock | 1865–1929 | 29 productions |
| George E. Mack | 1866–1948 | 18 productions |
| Vincent Serrano | 1866–1935 | 19 productions |
| Al Shean | 1868–1949 | 13 productions |
| Grace Kimball | 1868 | 18 productions |
| Edward Abeles | 1869–1919 | 18 productions |
| Claude Gillingwater | 1870–1939 | 12 productions |
| J.H. Benrimo | 1870–1942 | 8 productions |
| Queenie Vassar | 1870–1960 | 9 productions |
| Blanche Ring | 1871–1961 | 27 productions |
| Ben Harney | 1872–1938 | 6 productions |
| Edna Wallace Hopper | 1872–1959 | 16 productions |
| Bert Williams | 1874–1922 | 6 productions |
| Stella Mayhew | 1874–1934 | 14 productions |
| Frank Reicher | 1875–1965 | 23 productions |
| Bessie Wynn | 1876–1968 | 9 productions |
| Dorothy Donnelly | 1876–1928 | 21 productions |
| Edward Martindel | 1876–1955 | 13 productions |
| Margaret Dale | 1876–1972 | 33 productions |
| Victor Moore | 1876–1962 | 19 productions |
| Bertram Harrison | 1877–1955 | 3 productions |
| Bill Robinson | 1877–1949 | 5 productions |
| Donald Brian | 1877–1948 | 19 productions |
| Dorothy Walters | 1877–1934 | 11 productions |
| Hassard Short | 1877–1956 | 13 productions |
| Lawrence Grossmith | 1877–1944 | 14 productions |
| Orville Harrold | 1877–1933 | 6 productions |
| Ethel Griffies | 1878–1975 | 21 productions |
| Frank Tinney | 1878–1940 | 10 productions |
| George M. Cohan | 1878–1942 | 4 productions |
| Georgia Burke | 1878–1985 | 11 productions |
| Harry C. Browne | 1878–1954 | 9 productions |
| Helen Raymond | 1878–1965 | 13 productions |
| Taylor Holmes | 1878–1959 | 35 productions |
| Emma Carus | 1879–1927 | 14 productions |
| Fritzi Scheff | 1879–1954 | 13 productions |
| Harry Kelly | 1879–1955 | 22 productions |
| Lina Abarbanell | 1879–1963 | 12 productions |
| Sydney Greenstreet | 1879–1954 | 24 productions |
| Will Rogers | 1879–1935 | 8 productions |
| Ethel Levey | 1880–1955 | 8 productions |
| Nora Bayes | 1880–1928 | 5 productions |
| Edward H. Robins | 1881–1955 | 16 productions |
| George Hassell | 1881–1937 | 26 productions |
| John E. Hazzard | 1881–1935 | 20 productions |
| Leon Errol | 1881–1951 | 13 productions |
| Bertha Belmore | 1882–1953 | 16 productions |